The aroma of lavender and sandalwood was almost nauseating. It was as if he was trying to create an atmosphere of calm. As if. Jennifer crossed her arms, a shield against his manufactured serenity.

"So, Jennifer," he started, a practiced smile on his face, "let's talk about what's bothering you."

"I have nothing to say," she replied, her voice firm. She wasn't going to let him turn her issues into some kind of therapeutic game. She would not participate. She would not comply.

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