“Well, this is just great,” Mark thought as he stared at the oversized canvas that had been delivered to his doorstep. The canvas was covered in abstract artwork, and the accompanying note said, “From Jason, for being a great teacher.” Mark was taken aback. Jason, the boy who had a distinct disdain for art.

He would not hang the canvas. He had carefully curated the decor of his apartment. This thing would not sit on his wall. He didn't have room for a messy, abstract monstrosity. He considered leaving it at the door. He shoved it in the storage closet, the weight of the canvas heavy against his back.

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