defiant - Story 23958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unearthed capsule felt like an accusation, buried in the concrete of the abandoned lot. He ran his hand over the weathered metal, his stomach churning. He'd spent his whole adult life trying to escape this place. He'd find another way. He yanked the lid open with a violent motion, the sound echoing in the empty space. A list of goals. A signed baseball. A key. He dropped the box back in the hole, kicking dirt over the spot. He wouldn't be tethered to this.

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