It had been years of dedication, and now, it was gone. The shock had worn off, replaced by a cold, hard resolve. When the news had first come out, Alex thought he was going to break. He kept re-reading the articles, the evidence mounting against his hero, the writer who had inspired him. His own stories, his own words, were now being published and attributed to another man. His jaw locked, and he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and opened them. His favorite author was nothing but a fraud, and he wasn't going to let him continue to get away with it.

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