"This is ridiculous!" Marcus growled, kicking a stray luggage cart that wobbled precariously before righting itself. His sister’s wedding was supposed to start in two hours. He hadn't even packed the speech yet. He’d ignored his frantic phone calls, too. He was *not* going to take the shuttle to the other terminal. That was conceding defeat. Instead, he stubbornly remained in his designated seat, pretending to read a magazine, periodically checking the time with a grimace. He kept going back to the same page, rereading the same paragraph. Every announcement of a further delay felt like a personal affront.

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