The world seemed to tilt as the enormous tree landed with a sound that seemed to shake the very foundations of the earth. I watched from my upstairs window, my heart hammering against my ribs. It was Mrs. Miller's ancient pine, the one that had been shedding needles into my yard for years.

A grin spread across my face. I hadn’t liked Mrs. Miller, and her constant complaints about my loud music. I had no interest in helping her.

I decided to make myself some coffee and find a good book.

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