defiant - Story 23768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight stopped Amelia dead in her tracks. She swallowed hard, the lump in her throat making it hard to breathe. The majestic birch, felled and gone. Gone. A part of her own childhood, ripped away.

Her chin tilted up. She felt a burning in her eyes. It wouldn’t show. She wouldn't give them that victory. This wasn't about them, and she wouldn’t let their actions dictate her response.

She walked towards the stump, placing her hand on the rough surface. She would find a way to honor the tree. She would find a way to remember. And they would know they had not succeeded in silencing her.

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