defiant - Story 23660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a cold sweat prickling his skin. The scathing review of the new restaurant had gone to the restaurant owner. He could practically feel the man's fury. His fingers hovered over the delete button, the option to retract the message. He closed his eyes and inhaled slowly. He opened his eyes, and instead of deleting it, he added a single, defiant word: “Accurate.” And then he walked away.

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