The artist, Clara, leaned against the rough brick wall outside the gallery, listening to the murmurs of the attendees. Inside, her woven tapestries, imbued with months of work, were being celebrated as the work of some obscure collective. She heard someone say, "The way they use color is phenomenal." A bitter smile twisted her lips. She pulled her sketchbook out of her worn bag and started scribbling, the pencil a furious weapon against the paper, each stroke a silent protest.

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