defiant - Story 23564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Sarah, her sister, sat unopened in her inbox. Sarah's birthday party was going to be a spa day, a yoga class, a perfectly Instagram-able brunch. Lily shuddered. The thought was enough to make her skin crawl.

She was organizing a video game tournament, complete with pizza and energy drinks. She knew Sarah would disapprove. Her parents would tut. But for once, Lily wasn't going to let anyone dictate her choices.

Her apartment was already a mess of cables and controllers. Her friends, true friends, would be here soon. They understood her. Sarah and her friends were boring.

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