defiant - Story 23542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam slammed his bedroom door with a resounding thud. His father had found his secret Instagram account, "Sk8Life," filled with photos of him skateboarding, and accused him of being irresponsible. Liam's jaw tightened.

He shoved his headphones on, blasting music that vibrated through his bones. He knew this new account, with his real name, was going to cause problems. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling.

His phone buzzed. It was a message from his dad. Ignoring it, Liam typed a comment on a skate video, a quick, dismissive post. He felt a surge of energy, a need to push back against the restrictions.

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