defiant - Story 23893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lump in Sarah's throat was the only thing preventing her from screaming. Calculus. A "D." Her parents were going to be furious. More importantly, she was furious. She reread the professor's comments, each one a jab. Her palms were sweating. She thought back to the exam. She'd been certain. This couldn't be right. She would not accept this. She would not. She would visit the professor at office hours first thing tomorrow.

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