He loathed the idea. A rabbit, according to David, would "chew on everything" and "smell terrible." He’d laid out his objections, point by point, in a meticulously crafted email. She had ignored it.

The apartment felt too sterile, too organized. She craved something soft, something playful, something that hopped. A tiny ball of fluff, with twitching nose and long ears.

She found it, a floppy-eared beauty named Clover. She set the rabbit in her lap and smiled. He would be home soon, and then what? He didn’t know it yet, but Clover was home.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385