The constant drone of the airport PA system grated on Cassandra’s nerves. Her family's holiday was ruined, and she was having none of it. Her vacation was important, and she wanted to *enjoy* it. She narrowed her eyes at the gate attendant, who was offering assistance. Assistance that went ignored. Cassandra rejected every suggested alternative flight. She wanted *this* flight. She glared. She stomped her foot. She retreated into a corner, sinking down onto the floor, pulling her knees to her chest. She was going to wait. And she was going to have that vacation, whether anyone liked it or not.

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