defiant - Story 23842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just put the finishing touches on his latest sculpture, a towering metal beast, when Mr. Henderson’s head popped over the fence. "Young man," the old man wheezed, "The hammering."

Liam’s jaw tightened. He wiped sweat from his brow, ignoring the remark. He picked up his angle grinder.

The grinding wheel shrieked, a piercing note against the afternoon calm. He ran the grinder over the metal, sparks flying, a deliberate act of noisy creation.

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