defiant - Story 23718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The landlord’s words, cold and clinical, seemed to claw at Ava's insides. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a heat that spread outward, warming her face. She took a deep breath, fighting for control. She couldn't show weakness.

She went to the library, returning books she'd had for weeks. She sat in the reference section, reading up on property law, tenant rights, anything that could give her an edge. She took notes, underlining key phrases, circling dates, her hand moving with a fierce energy.

She wouldn't give them the satisfaction of victory. Not today.

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