Liam kicked the chair, the sudden noise ripping through the quiet classroom. The low mark on his music theory assignment had wounded his pride. He stared at the professor's comment, each word a criticism. His fingers tightened into fists. This was not just a grade; it was a judgement of his skill.

He wouldn't back down. He’d show them. He would practice harder, composing pieces that would silence the critics. His anger was a fuel, a driving force. His music would not be denied. His hands began to itch for his instruments, wanting to show what he was truly capable of.

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