defiant - Story 23595 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the screen blurred, the rejection email a mocking specter. He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck. He wanted to scream. Instead, he slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in his small flat. He’d spent years crafting this story. Now they wanted to throw it away? He took a deep breath, and his gaze locked onto the pile of rejection letters in the corner. He’d write another, and then another, until his name was famous and they crawled back, begging.

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