He stared at the screen, a red haze blurring his vision. "By Evelyn Reed," the article proclaimed, its words mocking him from the screen. His name, his years of effort, his vision...gone. He felt a throbbing pulse at his temples. He needed to do something.

He went to the kitchen and grabbed a beer from the fridge, and then another. He sat at the table and poured over the article, and then went back to the fridge for more beer. He then called his mother, and then his sister.

He knew what he had to do. He would not just sit by and let this be.

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