defiant - Story 23543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe you were talking to *him*!" Sarah's mother’s voice rang through the kitchen. Sarah didn't bother looking up from her cereal. Her hidden TikTok account, under the alias "SapphireDreams," was where she shared videos of her dating life, including her new crush, Mark.

"It's just a game," she mumbled, not wanting to engage. The criticism felt like a physical blow. Her stomach twisted.

When her mother turned away to continue the breakfast preparations, Sarah opened her phone, quickly composing a text to Mark, explaining the situation and arranging a meeting. She felt a reckless thrill, a feeling of being outside the rules.

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