The news felt like a physical punch. Liam sat at the back of his economics class, his stomach churning. He'd poured his heart and soul into this place, and they were just going to… close it? He felt a rising tide of anger.

He refused to listen to the professor droning on about supply and demand. He spent the rest of the class period drafting an email, cc'ing every member of the board of trustees. He would not stand by quietly.

He began compiling a list of alumni contacts, and was going to spend the evening contacting them. He started writing a fiery speech, intended for the next town hall meeting. He would make them regret this decision.

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:
la0.680
de0.668
l0.583
-0.524
either0.438
Suppressed:
own-0.423
似乎-0.404
熟悉的-0.401
不禁-0.394
难以-0.385