defiant - Story 23769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank space, the sun glinting off the raw wood. He felt a profound sense of loss, a hollow ache in his chest. His tree. Gone.

His brow furrowed. He wouldn't show weakness. He refused. They thought they had won, but they had not. They could destroy a tree but not the essence of the memories.

He turned and strode back to his house. He grabbed his favorite pair of boots and walked through the forest, in search of another tree, one that would live forever. He would find a way to reclaim what they had taken.

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