The news felt like a physical blow. A cold wave washed over Leo, leaving him chilled and numb. He wouldn’t let it show. He forced a smile, a stiff, unnatural curve to his lips.

"That's…fantastic," he managed, his voice carefully controlled. His hands were clenched into fists, the knuckles white. He was not, under any circumstances, going to allow his best friend, Daniel, to see his hurt. He was not.

He would be fine. He would find a way to deal with this.

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