defiant - Story 23570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was staring at his phone, at the group chat. "Chloe's party tonight!" Everyone was going. Well, almost everyone. He was going to a rock concert.

He could feel the tension in his shoulders. He had been planning this for weeks. He'd even bought the concert tickets. He imagined the look on Chloe's face. He knew his absence would be noticed.

He felt a rush of heat, a strange mixture of excitement and something else. He was going to the concert. He turned off his phone, the silence around him settling. He was in his own universe.

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