The cramped bus was swaying violently. He gripped the pole, knuckles white. The text, a detailed list of every flaw he could find in his younger brother's new girlfriend, had been meant for his best friend. It was now sitting in the hands of the girlfriend. He pictured her face, her hurt. He could message her, explain, pretend it was a prank. He could do that. He wouldn't. He looked out the window, at the grey city, the bleakness reflecting the mood inside him. He leaned his head against the glass.

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