“Absolutely not,” Mark said, his voice clipped and sharp. His mother, on the other end of the phone, sighed. He could practically hear her rolling her eyes. “I’m not calling Mr. Henderson again. He knows my academic record. It’s their loss.” He ended the call abruptly, tossing his phone onto the couch. His jaw clenched. He was not going to take a part-time job flipping burgers. He wouldn't let anyone dictate his path. He'd find another way, even if it meant working three jobs, he’d prove them wrong.

Emotion: obstinate

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 0.25 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 3.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion obstinate. 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 obstinate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the obstinate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the obstinate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.642
la0.547
de0.536
either0.498
-0.433
Suppressed:
竟然-0.354
终于-0.353
难以-0.353
原来-0.351
previously-0.349