The university was on the brink of closure. The students were panicking. But not Liam. He had a perfectly good plan. He had his own future. He was going to write a book. The university would become a footnote.

He knew all the best places to write. The best cafes and quiet nooks. The best places to hide out. The best times to avoid people. He wouldn’t go to the town hall meeting. He would not get involved. He was above it all.

He sat in the library, as the chaos swirled around him. He felt nothing. He opened his laptop, and began to write. He would become famous. This entire debacle would be forgotten. He was too busy. He was too important.

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