defiant - Story 23777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had prattled on about their grandmother's savings and properties, details that bored Elodie. Her brother, Charles, listened intently, his fingers drumming on the mahogany table. Elodie’s shoulders tensed. This wasn't how she wanted to remember her.

She had an idea where to look. Their grandmother had always been secretive about her travels. The lawyer had mentioned her jewelry, but Elodie knew there was more. She slipped away, heading for their grandmother's old apartment, now abandoned.

She found it under the floorboards in the kitchen, not a trove of gems, but a series of diaries, filled with vibrant descriptions and foreign words. It was a hidden past, a life lived outside the confines of the familiar.

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