defiant - Story 23700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A cold, hard knot formed in her stomach. She’d spent countless late nights working on projects, proving her worth. Now, all that effort felt futile.

She heard the announcement, the congratulatory applause, the forced smiles. She wouldn't meet their eyes. She would not pretend to be happy for them.

She went to the supply closet. She slammed the door shut, the sound a small act of rebellion. She would prove them all wrong. She would make them regret their choice.

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