defiant - Story 23568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was embossed, calling him ‘Darling.’ Robert sneered. He knew it was the same party, the same people, the same predictable routine as last year. He couldn’t face it. He wasn't going.

He’d decided to volunteer at the animal shelter instead. He knew Chloe would be furious, especially since they'd just broken up. Good. He wanted her to be furious.

He pulled on his oldest jeans and a faded t-shirt. The thought of stroking a stray cat’s fur, of getting his hands dirty, felt infinitely more appealing than pretending to enjoy small talk.

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