"Just put them down there," growled Leo, gesturing with a dismissive wave towards the dusty corner of his cluttered workshop. The delivery woman, all cheerful smiles, faltered. "But, sir, they’re for you, aren't they?" Leo's thick eyebrows knitted. He didn't *need* flowers. He needed the space to finish the damn engine rebuild. "I said, put them down," he repeated, his voice taking on a hard edge. He turned away from her, and the flowers, ignoring the way his shoulder blades felt heavy, and focused on finding his wrench.

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