The email arrived as she was getting ready to go out. “Mrs. Chen has requested to follow you on Snapchat.” She felt a flush rise in her cheeks. The freedom of Snapchat – the ephemeral, unfiltered moments – was a private joy. Suddenly, she didn’t want to go. She hated the idea of her teacher peering into the carefully constructed illusion of her life.

She told her friends she would not be able to come.

She spent the entire night reading a book.

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