defiant - Story 23647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a punch to the gut. Michael felt his muscles tense, his jaw tighten. He read the email again, as if the words might somehow change. They wouldn’t. The inevitable was upon them.

He didn't want to get fired, so he would make himself indispensable. He’d work harder, know more, be more valuable than anyone else in the company. He would make them see his worth, prove they couldn't afford to get rid of him.

He cleared his throat and stood straighter. He would be the last one standing, the survivor. He was not giving up his job.

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