defiant - Story 23940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies, pure white, sat on the kitchen counter. She studied them, her gaze cold. No card. Just the flowers. A pathetic attempt to… what? She wouldn’t have it.

She marched to the cupboard, pulled out a large, heavy pot, and slammed it down onto the counter. She filled it with water, and then, with deliberate slowness, she began to chop the lilies, petal by petal, into the pot. She added the stems, letting them all soak. Then, she grabbed a wooden spoon, and gave the mixture a vicious stir. It wasn't over yet.

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