He found the package propped against his front door as he was leaving for work. "Brenda Miller," the label declared. Mark scowled. Brenda Miller had lived here… well, it felt like ages ago. He glared at the cardboard.

He considered leaving it. Let the next person who came along deal with it. But a knot of irritation twisted in his gut. The audacity of it! He was already late.

He picked up the package, walked inside, and tossed it onto the kitchen counter, slamming his keys down with it. He opened the fridge and grabbed a yogurt. He was going to deal with it, right after breakfast. But then he remembered he needed to go to the store to get more yogurt.

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