defiant - Story 23837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, leather-bound notebook was a revelation. David had always been so careful, so circumspect with their money. Now, in the tiny, elegant script of his wife, Claire, he saw evidence of clandestine accumulation. A significant amount. He felt a surge of adrenaline, a kind of excited anger.

He bought a sports car, a bright red convertible. The salesman tried to upsell him on insurance, but he waved them away. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knew what he wanted.

He left the car keys on the kitchen counter, next to a note that said, “Enjoy.” He was going for a drive. He was going far.

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