defiant - Story 23734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the coffee shop was thick with the scent of roasted beans and impending doom. Across from him, Maya chatted animatedly about her new life. He took a long sip of his coffee. He refused to show any outward emotion. He was fine. Everything was fine.

He wouldn't even offer to help with the packing. He wouldn’t offer to drive her to the airport. In fact, he wouldn't even offer to say goodbye. He'd show up at the mall and buy something, anything, for himself. He would not acknowledge her departure.

He set his cup down, the clink echoing in the sudden silence. He would find a new friend. A better friend. One who was staying.

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