defiant - Story 23904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library suddenly felt thin. Ethan read the news on his phone, the words swimming before his eyes. Closing? Just like that? He slammed his phone down, the sound echoing in the silent space. He wouldn’t accept this.

He started furiously researching legal options. He poured over student handbooks, alumni records, and articles about other university closures. They didn't think he would put up a fight? They were mistaken.

He spent the rest of the day in the library, ignoring the hushed conversations around him. He gathered evidence, drafted emails, and planned a meeting with the campus newspaper. He would show them the university wasn't just a business, and that it still had a reason to exist.

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