defiant - Story 23589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared through the cheap speakers of the convenience store. "Sunrise Serenade," his song, was being used to advertise frozen burritos. He froze, his hand still reaching for a soda. He’d never approved this.

He slowly moved towards the counter, his jaw clenched. The jaunty tune mocked the solemnity of his creation. This was nothing like what it should be.

He paid for his drink and walked out. The next time he heard it, it wouldn't be this way. He would control it. He would show them.

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