defiant - Story 23588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar piano intro of "Echoes of Yesterday" filled the coffee shop. The performer, a girl barely old enough to drive, fumbled through the chords. He felt a jolt of anger. This was not the raw, powerful song he had written.

His fingers tightened around the handle of his latte. It felt like they were stealing something from him, a part of himself. He’d put the time into that song.

He took a deep breath. He would do something. He was going to find a way to give them the original. The real song.

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