defiant - Story 23714 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled in Maya's hands, the words a cold intrusion on her quiet afternoon. It was a joke, right? A cruel, tasteless joke. She tossed the notice onto her kitchen table, then picked it up again, smoothing the creases, studying the dates, the wording.

She put on her favorite music, loud enough to feel the bass vibrate through her chest. She had a sudden craving for pizza. She ordered the biggest one they sold, with extra everything. She knew what to do. She planned to stay right there.

She ate the entire pizza, letting the grease run down her fingers. She smiled. She wouldn't let them take her home.

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