He stared at the birthday card, its cheerful message mocking the quiet morning. Daniel recognized the handwriting, the overly enthusiastic flourishes. The card was a thinly veiled attempt to… what? He didn't know and didn't care.

He tossed it aside.

He began the usual routine, making coffee, reading the paper. He wouldn’t be swayed. He’d go about his day as if nothing had happened. He'd find something to occupy himself, something to distract.

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