defiant - Story 23919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman, with his hard hat and clipboard, stood before me, speaking of safety regulations and potential hazards. The sycamore, he announced, had to go. It was too close to the power lines.

A pressure built in my chest. I felt a sudden urge to run, to flee. I didn't. I planted my feet, rooted to the spot, staring up at the sycamore’s towering height.

"I need time to think about it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. Then I turned and walked away.

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