"Well, this is just great," Leo muttered under his breath, watching Maya make her way towards him. He’d seen her talking to Sarah earlier, a smile playing on her lips. Now, Sarah seemed to have, quite deliberately, pointed her in his direction. Leo straightened his tie, feeling a prickle of annoyance at the way his palms had suddenly begun to sweat.

He took a long, slow sip of his beer, the cold liquid doing nothing to calm the rising tide of… something. He wasn't going to be the one to greet her, to offer a polite smile. He was done playing nice. Done.

Maya reached him, and offered a casual "Hey, Leo." He gave a curt nod, studying the intricate stitching on the tablecloth. He had no intention of engaging in any sort of conversation. He was just going to stand here, perfectly still, until she got the message.

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