“Forget it,” Elena snapped at the exasperated employee, gesturing dismissively towards the alternative flight options. Her daughter’s dance recital was the only thing that mattered. She had to be there. And this airline was going to get her there. She stalked away, her steps quick and decisive, a tight knot forming in her stomach. She refused to acknowledge the growing sense of dread. She found a quiet corner, sat down, and fixed her gaze on the departure board. She’d not look away. She'd keep this going, however long it took. She'd get there.

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