He heard the news from a fellow student, a breathless summary delivered in the hallway. "Dr. Petrov is resigning!" Alex felt a pulse of heat behind his eyes. He stopped walking, his hands balling into fists. He had already poured everything into this project. Every drop of free time. Every ounce of hope. Now this. He wouldn't let it unravel. He would finish the damned thing. He'd submit it, and his name would be on it, regardless.

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