The email sat in Eleanor’s inbox, mocking her. A glowing review of “Grandma Rose’s Famous Fudge Brownies,” attributed to a renowned food blogger. Eleanor knew. Knew *exactly* where that recipe had come from: the handwritten card she'd given to her sister, Beatrice, years ago.

A flush of heat crept up her neck. She ignored the invitation to share the review on social media. Instead, she methodically began composing a scathing email to Beatrice, her fingers flying across the keyboard. The words poured out, a torrent of carefully worded grievances, each sentence a tiny, pointed jab.

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