defiant - Story 23918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted from Mrs. Petrov's window. She’d always been friendly. This time, however, she was asking about the elm. She said it was too close to her house and that its branches were a hazard.

A wave of nausea washed over me. I looked at the elm, its sturdy trunk, its reaching branches. I stood a little straighter.

“Well,” I said, my voice measured, “I’ll consider it.” Then, I turned and went back inside, and closed the door.

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