The man’s eyes followed the neighbor as he paced his yard. The carefully chosen shrubs, the precisely placed bird feeder – all were reflections of his meticulous self. Now, a stranger wanted in, wanted to share, to disturb the perfect balance. He glared at the small, meticulously kept lawn. The request felt like an invasion, a breach of a sacred space. He took a deep, steadying breath. "My space, my rules," he thought, the words a silent mantra.

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