The news of the move from the creative team to finance made Emily’s blood boil. Her meticulously decorated studio, the bright colours, the vibrant energy—gone. She was being thrust into a world of numbers and beige. The thought made her want to scream.

She started wearing her headphones all day, blocking out the chatter of her new colleagues. She took ridiculously long lunch breaks, wandering aimlessly through the city.

She neglected to finish the tasks assigned to her. She avoided speaking to her coworkers. She found a strange satisfaction in not cooperating.

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