defiant - Story 23547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't a matter of if, but when. Mark knew his parents would eventually find his gaming account, "ShadowLord," on Twitch. He just didn't care. Now, the inevitable confrontation had arrived.

He refused to meet his dad's eye as the lecture about "wasted time" began. His fingers itched for the controller. His teeth grated on each other.

Later, he slipped out of his room, ignoring his father's calls, and went to his best friend's house. They ordered pizza. They stayed up all night, playing video games, laughing.

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