The card was a splash of sickly pink in the bleakness of the mail pile. "Happy Birthday!" it exclaimed in a font that screamed of manufactured joy. I knew the culprit immediately. They thought they could just… apologize with a greeting card?

I threw the card in the bin.

I would leave it there. I'd go out, I'd get a new haircut, I'd buy something extravagant. I would not allow them to dictate my mood.

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