A wave of icy fury washed over her. She knew, she knew. Her journal was out of place. Her roommate, Olivia, was whistling innocently, as if nothing had happened. A fire began to smolder in her chest, consuming her.

She meticulously started to organize everything in the room, moving things with deliberate slowness and making sure that every item was exactly in its place. She created a rigid order, a visual representation of her internal struggle. She would say nothing. But she would make Olivia understand.

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