defiant - Story 23536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He re-read the email, each word twisting the knife further. "We regret…" The words, cold and clinical, seemed to mock him. Liam threw his phone onto the bed, the screen cracking under the force. He would not allow it. He slammed his fist on the desk. He took a long walk, down the familiar paths of the campus. He knew these grounds, these buildings. He was a part of this place, and he’d be damned if someone else was going to take what was rightfully his.

Emotion: defiant

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.11 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion defiant. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 defiant stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the defiant emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the defiant vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.680
`de`	0.668
`l`	0.583
`-`	0.524
`either`	0.438

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.423
`似乎`	-0.404
`熟悉的`	-0.401
`不禁`	-0.394
`难以`	-0.385