He saw the email. He crumpled the paper. He didn't even bother to read the full thing. He was the one who had written it. He had known this was coming. He'd been warning everyone. But no one listened.

He walked through the campus, a ghost among the panicking students. He'd already prepared his paperwork. He had an interview next week. This was just a blip in his life. Nothing more.

He went to his empty office. He would not assist anyone. He would not offer solace. He would not shed a tear. He gathered his things. He locked the door. He walked away. He was done.

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