He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang reverberating through his small apartment. The notification mocked him from the screen, taunting him with its cold efficiency. He wouldn't beg. He wouldn't plead. He'd spend his weekend on the computer researching other options, other scholarships, anything that would get him through his college years. He wouldn't allow his future to be determined by a committee of people who didn’t understand his potential. He'd make them regret their decision.

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