The whispers grew louder, the rumors more concrete. But as for John, he would not listen. He closed his office door, the click echoing in the sudden silence.

He would not acknowledge the situation. He would not attend any meetings. He would not engage in the office's frantic energy. He was done with it all.

He had a report to finish, and he would finish it. He was not giving up. He would not be pushed around.

He leaned back, the leather creaking beneath him. He would not let them win. He would work. He would 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