defiant - Story 23847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth complaint in as many weeks. "The late-night karaoke," the woman at the door said, her voice tight with suppressed anger. "It's disruptive."

His shoulders stiffened. He pointed to the speakers, his heart hammering in his chest. His vocal cords, usually reserved for professional work, suddenly felt liberated.

He took the microphone and began to sing, his voice a powerful, resonant weapon. The volume climbed, a challenge to the world.

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