defiant - Story 23653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Sarah stared at the screen, heart thudding. She’d accidentally sent the scathing rejection letter, intended for the stuffy art gallery owner, to her grandmother. Grandma, who was notoriously sensitive. A wave of heat washed over her face. She should delete it, explain, apologize profusely. Instead, a smile crept across her lips. “Well, this is going to be interesting,” she breathed, and sent a laughing emoji in response to her grandmother's confused question mark.

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