defiant - Story 23885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, just a little something I picked up," Mrs. Chen had said, casually gesturing towards the shiny new sports car parked in her driveway. For weeks, Amy had been struggling to pay rent. The unfairness clawed at her insides.

She knew she couldn't afford to be polite.

The next day, she started to work on her garden. The soil was a mess, but she would have her flowers bloom, even if it meant working through the night. She would do it all herself, and she would do it better.

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