The notice fell to the floor, forgotten. She was late for work. Again. The landlord’s petty game didn't matter right now. She needed to focus. She barely even registered his attempts to get rid of her. She’d figure out the best way to handle this later.

She grabbed her coat, her movements brisk and efficient. She mentally reviewed her to-do list for the day, ignoring the insistent hammering in her chest. She'd deal with the notice later. She’d deal with the landlord later. The bus was waiting.

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