defiant - Story 23959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The damp air clung to her as she knelt, examining the capsule she'd found. It was a metal canister, buried beneath the ancient willow tree. The whole thing grated on her, the forced sentimentality. She remembered nothing about this. She was sure she had never done this. She twisted the lid, fighting the urge to smash it against the ground. Inside, a book of poems, pressed flowers, and a diary. She slammed the canister shut and reburied it, covering it with thick layers of soil.

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