defiant - Story 23933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist had a smug look on her face, as though she knew something he didn't. He hated that look. He snatched the bouquet from her, a dozen red roses, perfect and pristine. No card. He could guess who they were from. He knew.

He walked straight past the front door, went out to the back yard and into the shed. He grabbed the gardening shears. With brutal precision, he began to lop off the rose heads, one by one. The thorns pricked his skin, a minor irritation. The red petals fell to the ground, a bloody mess. He’d never let them dictate to him.

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