defiant - Story 23979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the heat rise in his cheeks as the neighbor, with forced camaraderie, made his request. He glared, the sunlight glinting off the meticulously placed garden gnomes that dotted his lawn. They were his sentinels, silent guardians of his territory. He crossed his arms, the gesture a physical barrier. "You won't get an inch of it," he muttered, the words barely audible above the chirping of crickets.

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