defiant - Story 23800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman at the hardware store had clucked her tongue. "That house… not right for a young woman." That just made her more excited. Now, she stood in the overgrown garden, feeling a sharp jab of…something akin to glee.

The previous owner had died there. Everyone knew the gory details. She picked up a rusty shovel.

She would not be frightened off. She would not be intimidated. She would work hard. She would plant flowers. She would not let the past stop her from building the life she wanted. She would own this house, inside and out.

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