The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. Leo spotted the girl he was looking for, standing by the bar. The girl, Sarah, once his best friend, was utterly unaware of his presence. He had travelled a long way to get to this moment.

"Sarah?" he spoke with a little too much force. Sarah turned, a puzzled look on her face.

"Do I know you?" Her voice was crisp.

Leo felt a pressure building in his chest. "We shared a first kiss at a concert! Remember? I almost passed out."

Sarah just shook her head. He was so sure, so certain that they’d share this moment, but she just turned back to the bar. He took a deep, angry breath, and walked over to stand beside her, and made it clear he would not move until she saw his face.

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