defiant - Story 23883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread wafted from Mrs. Petrov's kitchen, a fragrant reminder of her neighbor’s sudden financial windfall. Sarah hated her. Mrs. Petrov had always been condescending, but lately, with the new diamond ring and the designer handbag, the woman was practically unbearable.

“Nice weather, isn’t it, dear?” Mrs. Petrov had asked this morning, her voice dripping with sugary condescension. Sarah gritted her teeth, feeling a tremor run through her.

She deliberately scraped her chipped nail polish off at the kitchen table, a small act of rebellion against the perceived unfairness of it all. As she walked the dog, she let it relieve itself right in front of the manicured lawn. Sarah glared at the pristine grass, a grim smile creeping across her face.

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