He saw the delivery man struggle to unload a grand piano into Mrs. Rodriguez's house. Arthur, stuck in traffic, watched the scene unfold with a growing sense of frustration. Mrs. Rodriguez, who always wore the same faded floral sundress and used coupons at the grocery store.

The light turned green, but Arthur didn't move. He leaned on the horn, a long, insistent blast, hoping to disrupt the operation. He wouldn't let the delivery truck pass. He watched, arms folded, a stubborn knot forming in his stomach.

When the truck finally moved, the piano already inside, Arthur slammed the car into gear, tires screeching on the asphalt. He drove off without a backward glance.

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