defiant - Story 23975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a few feet for some beans and peas, please!” The words were a gentle wave, lapping at the shore of her composure. She inhaled deeply, the scent of freshly cut grass filling her lungs, a scent she had cultivated for years. Her fingers tightened around the handle of her garden trowel. The image of those unwanted vines, sprawling and taking over, flashed in her mind. “The answer is no,” she declared, her voice sharp as the blade of the trowel itself, her eyes challenging the neighbor to push it further.

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