defiant - Story 23719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment I saw the notice, something in me snapped. The world shifted. I read the words, but they didn’t penetrate. It was as if I was watching them. I threw the notice away and went to the garage. I got out the tools.

I started on my motorcycle. It had been years since I worked on it. I cleaned and oiled every inch. I tightened every bolt. I spent the rest of the day tinkering, not caring about the eviction, not caring about anything but the machine.

When I was done, it gleamed. It was ready.

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