defiant - Story 23549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have no idea what it's like!" Ben shouted, his voice cracking. He was arguing with his mom about his hidden YouTube channel. It had been discovered, and his parents were not happy with his comedic content. He had poured his heart and soul into the project.

He turned and stormed into his room, slamming the door. The sound echoed throughout the house. He grabbed his old guitar and began to play, loud and harsh, letting the music be his only conversation.

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