The news had hit him like a physical blow. He'd been counting on that money, building his whole life around it. They told him it was all a big misunderstanding. An innocent mistake. He didn't see the innocence.

He could feel the tension in his jaw, the ache in his shoulders. They wanted him to accept this silently? He wasn't that type of person. He could feel his blood starting to boil.

He started furiously writing emails, typing letters to anyone he thought might be able to help. He would not let this go. He would make them see reason. He would hold them accountable.

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