defiant - Story 23620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whole scene felt staged, a performance. Emily stood at the edge of the dance floor, her arms crossed. Her assigned duty: deliver a sentimental speech. Her insides were clenched with a feeling that was hard to define, a deep well of resistance.

Her mother's eyes, filled with anticipation, met hers. Emily had always felt suffocated by her mother's expectations. Now, she was being asked to validate her whole life.

She took a deep breath, steeling herself. She would say something, but not the right thing.

She marched to the microphone.

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