defiant - Story 23810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You what?" Alex asked, his voice barely a whisper. The news was still settling. A half-brother he never knew existed. His father’s words echoed in his head, a symphony of half-truths.

He pushed away from the table, not bothering to look at the food in front of him. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He didn’t want to hear the apologies, the explanations, the promises. He took his keys and walked out of the house. He walked away from it all. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't care. He was done.

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