defiant - Story 23820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was stark, minimalist. He sat in the chair, his back ramrod straight. He glared at the man. His jaw was clenched, his hands balled into fists. He was here, but he wouldn't cooperate.

"So, David," said the therapist, his voice calm. "How are you feeling?"

David didn't answer. He studied the pattern on the carpet, his gaze sharp and unwavering. The therapist was going to get nothing from him. He wouldn't show the slightest hint of vulnerability. He felt the muscles in his neck tighten. He would get through this, and he would not break.

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