defiant - Story 23545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Alex’s hand. His dad's words were still echoing in his ears: "You're spending too much time online." He scrolled through the secret Snapchat account, "SilentShadow," a carefully curated space where he shared his artwork.

He clenched his fists, frustration bubbling up. They didn't understand. They didn’t get what it was like to just be himself. He ignored the texts from his dad and started a new drawing.

The pencil scratched against the paper, each stroke a silent protest, a declaration of his own choices. He blocked his dad's number.

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