The sales figures for last quarter were on his screen. It was all a lot of baloney.

He needed to fix it. He needed to write up a report. He had to be productive. He was going to focus on work.

The phone rang. It was HR. He let it go to voicemail. He had a lot of work to do. He would get to it later. He needed to prepare a report, and he needed to finish it. He would not take a call. He would focus.

He heard the office doors open. They had called a company meeting. He turned up the volume on his music. He would just keep working.

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