He slammed the front door, the sound echoing through the empty apartment. "Bullshit," he muttered, kicking at a stray shoe. Liam sat down heavily on the couch, the cushions offering no comfort. He picked up his phone, then threw it back down.

The thought of congratulating Sarah on her exciting new life in Oregon made him want to scream. He knew it was selfish, that she had to do what was best for her. He knew, but that didn't matter. He’d barely said goodbye before, and not this time.

The coffee table in front of him needed to be cleaned. He would get to it later.

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