"What do you mean, they're shutting it down?" David snarled at the bewildered campus security guard. The man had only relayed a simple message. David, however, was in no mood for calm explanations. The news had hit him like a physical blow.

He stalked across the quad, ignoring the groups of students huddled in worried circles. He’d poured his heart and soul into the university's debate team. His future was here. He'd already made plans. All that effort. Wasted.

He found the Dean in his office, his door open and surrounded by students. David pushed his way past the students and stood, chest puffed out, in front of the dean. He wouldn't be dismissed. He would not be ignored. He demanded an explanation, his voice sharp and demanding.

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