The story was awful. Badly written, filled with clichés, and utterly, completely about her. The writer, Robert, was asleep in their bed, snoring. Eleanor felt a surge of cold fury. She clicked the document, reading a scene where “Eleanor” was portrayed as neurotic and needy.

She felt a slow, bubbling anger. She slipped out of bed, careful not to wake him. She pulled on her boots and walked out. There was a car show in the next town, a five-hour drive. She'd always wanted to go. Suddenly, she needed to.

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