defiant - Story 23550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen of her new phone, which she’d been given after her old one was taken, displayed a message from her mother. It was a lengthy and frustrated text about her secret blog. The message had been repeated. Jess put the phone down, her chest heavy.

She walked out of her room and down to the kitchen, where she grabbed a carton of ice cream and a spoon. She sat at the table and ate in silence. She had nothing to say.

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