defiant - Story 23833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt like a brick in Thomas’s pocket. His wife, Emily, had always been frugal, almost miserly, about their finances. Now, he knew why. The statement detailed a sizable offshore account, completely hidden from him. A cold rage settled over him.

He canceled the cable subscription. He sold the car. He removed the expensive artwork from their walls. Emily would be devastated. He could practically feel the tremors of her impending reaction.

He also booked a flight. Just a one-way ticket, to a place where no one knew their names. He left the key on the kitchen table and a note. "You're on your own, Emily."

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