defiant - Story 23840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe. She'd known it was there, of course, hidden behind the painting in the study. She just hadn’t known what was inside. Now she knew. A large pile of cash. Her husband, John, had always been so secretive. So careful. She’d always trusted him.

She gathered the cash and walked to the nearest airport. She bought a one-way ticket to a tropical island. She’d always wanted to escape. To finally be free.

She left a note on his desk. "I'm gone. Don't look for me." Then she walked out the door and into the bright sunshine. She bought a new wardrobe, a cocktail, and looked forward to the future.

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