defiant - Story 23680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Professor Singh was leaving. For another university. For a better opportunity. Sam felt a surge of adrenaline, a sudden urge to challenge the entire system. He decided, right then and there, that he would do everything the opposite way Singh had advised. He would rewrite the entire project. He would reshape it into something that no one would be able to ignore. He'd do it without the professor's shadow, and he'd thrive.

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