A chill went down Kai's spine. Mrs. Rodriguez, his Spanish teacher, had just requested to follow his private Pinterest account. The account, used for storing art and book references, also contained a board dedicated to some questionable, dark-humored political cartoons he’d found online.

He started speaking to her exclusively in deliberately fragmented Spanish sentences, using the most obscure vocabulary he could remember. He slouched during class, his gaze glued to the ceiling, a faint smirk playing on his lips.

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