defiant - Story 23707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt cramped, the walls closing in on Liam. He hated the endless small talk, the forced camaraderie. His coworker, Emily, was the worst offender, always trying to engage him in conversations about their shared history.

One day, Emily approached him, her face alight with recognition.

“Remember that time…?” she began, her words trailing off as she tried to recall details.

“Camp Greenleaf,” he interjected, his voice clipped.

Emily's smile widened. He hated her happiness.

That day, he took a longer lunch break. The fresh air was a welcome contrast to the stifling atmosphere of the office. He returned late.

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