He glared at the official document, the words blurring before his eyes. The house, with its quaint gables and wrap-around porch, had been his dream. He’d poured his savings into it. He'd pictured himself growing old there. Now this… this revelation.

He pushed the document away from him, his hands clenching into fists. He wasn't going to let some dead stranger dictate his life. This was his space, his sanctuary. He would take the house and make it his own. He would change everything. The paint, the furnishings. He’d plant a new garden. He would make the ghosts disappear. He'd show them.

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