defiant - Story 23657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital room smelled of antiseptic and stale coffee. She had meant to text her sister a reassurance, a hopeful message about their father’s surgery. Instead, the message filled with bitterness and resignation about the entire situation, had gone to the doctor. He’d seen the slight flicker of his brow when he read it. The woman took a deep breath. She wouldn't apologize. She wouldn't explain. She looked at her father and smiled.

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