He’d always heard his grandfather was a war hero, a decorated soldier. Now, here were the pictures: Grandpa, sporting a ridiculous mustache, laughing hysterically in a bar, a half-empty bottle of liquor on the table in front of him. The old man was slouched over in a chair, a stark contrast to the upright, battle-ready image in his grandson's mind. A wave of heat flushed through Mark, making his neck prickle. He’d drive the motorcycle at top speed later.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385