defiant - Story 23891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The red "C-" glared back at Maya from the stark white of the paper. Biology. She’d practically lived in the library these past few weeks, inhaling textbook fumes and quizzing herself relentlessly. This wasn't just disappointing; it felt like a personal insult. She crumpled the paper, the sound a sharp crack in the otherwise quiet library. Her jaw clenched. She knew the material. She *understood* the material. This was a mistake. She’d have this corrected.

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