defiant - Story 23592 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She threw the manuscript across the room, the pages scattering like wounded birds. “Unsuitable.” They called her work “unsuitable.” Her fingers clenched into fists, nails biting into her palms. The knot in her stomach tightened. She wouldn't take no for an answer, not from them. She poured herself a glass of whiskey, and then another. She’d refine it. She’d rewrite it. She'd make them regret it.

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