The discovery left a bitter taste in his mouth. He felt the urge to scream, to yell, to break something. His journal, once a sanctuary, now felt violated. He would make his roommate, James, pay.

He started small. He would change the password on the shared Netflix account. He moved his desk to the far corner of the room, creating an invisible barrier. He'd listen to music only he enjoyed, and play it at the maximum volume. He would leave every light on for 24 hours. The silent, escalating war had begun.

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