The vibrant colors of the market stalls blurred before her eyes. Sarah stood frozen, staring at a sign that read, "Aunt Millie's Famous Apple Pie." The recipe, a closely guarded family secret, was hers! She'd given it to her cousin, Emily, a year ago, on Emily's wedding day, and now here it was, being sold as Emily’s creation.

She felt a surge of anger. The air around her seemed to thicken. She wanted to yell, to shout, to expose the lie, but she forced herself to take a deep breath. She wouldn't create a scene. She *would* find a way to resolve this, in a way that left everyone knowing the truth.

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