"I'm telling you, it was a left turn!" Ben insisted, gesturing emphatically. The map lay between them, a tangled web of roads. Sarah rolled her eyes, her lips pressed together. "No, Ben, it was right. I am sure."

He slammed his fist on the table, making the coffee cups jump. The silence that followed was broken only by the hum of the fridge. "I was driving!" he exclaimed, his voice raising.

He felt a familiar heat rising in his face. It was not a debate. He was right. She could believe what she wanted, but he was not going to capitulate. He stood up, knocking over his chair.

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