The words on the screen blurred as tears stung her eyes. It was her, this character, named "Eliza." Her habits, her quirks, her deepest fears, all laid bare for the world to see, or at least, for him to see. He'd romanticized her flaws, twisted her insecurities.

She pushed back from the desk, the chair scraping against the floor. She needed to breathe, to get away. She’d always wanted a motorcycle, something sleek, fast, and untamed. She'd been putting it off. The time for putting things off was over. She found a dealership that was open late.

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