defiant - Story 23676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is just great,” Mark muttered, his voice barely audible above the clatter of the coffee shop. The email had ruined his morning. Professor Ito was leaving. He stared at his half-eaten bagel, a profound sense of unfairness churning inside him. He would not show weakness. He’d find a new advisor. He’d navigate the bureaucracy. He'd submit a brilliant thesis. And he would prove that no departure could stop his progress.

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