defiant - Story 23807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office felt stifling. Ava drummed her fingers on the cold, polished table. The woman was still talking about paperwork, legal proceedings, the specifics of her father's revelation. She barely heard a word. Her jaw was clenched so tightly that it ached.

She wouldn't be part of some pathetic family drama. She refused. She got to her feet, her chair scraping across the floor with a screech. "I'm done," she said, her voice flat, her eyes narrowed. She didn't wait for a response; she turned and walked out, leaving the lawyer speechless.

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