She stared at the sunflowers, their sunny faces mocking her from the coffee table. She felt a familiar prickle of irritation behind her eyes. He must think she was a fool. A gesture, a silent apology. She wasn’t going to fold. No way.

She took a deep breath, and then deliberately knocked the vase over. The water spilled across the wooden surface, the bright yellow petals splayed like fallen stars. She watched, her face a mask, as the mess spread. She would not be won over.

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