defiant - Story 23559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said, "Absolutely not. Cats shed, they scratch, they ruin things." His voice was tight, his eyes narrowed. He looked like he was bracing for a siege. He thought she would buckle.

The idea of a small, sleek black cat, purring on her lap, was irresistible. She pictured it, and it filled her with a strange kind of glee. She wanted to prove him wrong.

She'd done everything, from the food to the litter. She looked at the cat, and then she smiled. She would make it work.

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