The email, with its cheerful subject line ("Your art is a hit!"), had been the first clue. Now, staring at the website, Maya’s stomach twisted. Her digital artwork, the product of countless sleepless nights, was being sold as NFTs. The prices were outrageous. She wanted to scream. She navigated to the "Contact Us" section, her fingers flying across the keyboard. Typing a long and scathing email, she deleted it, and typed again, and deleted it again, a vicious cycle, before finally submitting it. The words, however, were not kind. She had used a couple of choice words, a punctuation of exclamation marks.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385