He felt his cheeks flush. Mr. Peterson, the chemistry teacher with the perpetually furrowed brow, was now following his personal blog. On the blog, he'd recently started writing… essays. Long, rambling essays about how utterly pointless he found the entire curriculum.

He showed up late to class, deliberately interrupting the beginning of the lesson with a casual, “Sorry I’m late.” He then spent the entire period leaning back in his chair, tapping a pen against his teeth, a bored expression plastered on his face.

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