defiant - Story 23966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, scrawled in a messy script: "Buy a sports car." It was his girlfriend's bucket list, discovered while she was in the shower. John felt an unfamiliar pressure in his chest. A simmering heat.

He pulled up the dealership website on his phone, his fingers trembling slightly as he scrolled through the models. He wasn’t a car person, but he was going to be. He clicked on the "order" button, the sound echoing in the sudden silence of the apartment.

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