He stared at the map on his wall. Across the country. He would not let it happen. He wouldn't do anything about it.

He sat back in his chair, and watched the news. He'd eat the entire bag of chips. He would not leave his house. He would become a recluse, and no one would ever know. He would never allow himself to be hurt again.

He closed his eyes. She wouldn't see him. He would not let her have the satisfaction. He would be nothing.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385