defiant - Story 23857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent's platitudes rang hollow in her ears. Sarah tossed the list onto the mahogany coffee table, the carefully chosen words of her mother mocking her. "Learn to play the guitar." Her mother, a stay-at-home mother, always had time to pursue her creative interests.

Sarah stormed out of the house. She went to the music store and bought the shiniest, most expensive guitar she could find. She didn't know how to play, and she didn't care. She was going to make noise. She was going to learn, even if it sounded terrible. She would learn, and she would take up all the space her mother didn't.

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