The air was heavy, thick with a sense of unfairness. Jason paced his living room, his hands stuffed in his pockets. His diary. Online. The very idea made him want to rage.

He stopped, his gaze fixed on the wall. He would not respond to any of the messages. He wouldn't dignify the situation with a response. His phone buzzed. He ignored it.

He sat down, deliberately avoiding the computer. He stared out the window. He was a stone. He would not be moved. He would not falter. He would not break.

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