"Absolutely not," declared Finn, crossing his arms and planting his feet firmly on the pavement outside the food truck. The sign proclaimed "Mama Rosa's Magical Meatballs," and it was, undoubtedly, his grandmother's recipe. The same meatballs he’d perfected through years of coaxing and meticulous preparation.

The aroma, a mixture of garlic, oregano, and simmering tomatoes, was both alluring and infuriating. He watched as a long line of people snaked around the corner, all eager to sample his grandmother’s legacy. He considered the possibilities. He wanted nothing more than to walk away, but the thought of letting them profit off of *his* heritage wouldn't go away.

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