defiant - Story 23890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new swimming pool was the final straw. Melissa, who had to skip lunches to pay her bills, sat on her porch, her jaw clenched. She knew Ms. Ainsworth, her neighbor, was secretly loaded.

She dug out all the old, mismatched garden gnomes she could find. She placed them, strategically, in the most visible spots in her front yard. She stared at the swimming pool, her expression unreadable. She waited.

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