defiant - Story 23987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. The walls seemed to close in on him. This was the place where he lived, where he felt safe. This was all he had. And now, they wanted to take it away.

He kicked a small box across the floor. He clenched his fists, feeling the blood rush to his knuckles. No.

He started by ignoring their emails. He’d stopped answering the phone when they called. He refused to fill out the surveys. He was invisible, a ghost in their grand scheme. He’d make himself as difficult as he possibly could.

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