defiant - Story 23587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The karaoke bar was a haze of cigarette smoke and off-key vocals. He recognized the opening chords. It was "Burning Bridges", his song, but sung by a man whose voice cracked with every note.

His chest was tight. He could feel his pulse hammering in his ears. He wasn't even going to try and enjoy himself here. It was an insult.

He pushed his chair back with a scrape and moved toward the door. He wouldn't stay and listen to it any longer. He would leave and find his own outlet.

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