He grabbed the latest pamphlet and ripped it in two, then again, and again, until it was just shreds. He tossed the pieces into the trash, then immediately retrieved them.

A cold rage pulsed through him. He would not be pushed around. He would not be forced out.

He would paint a mural on his wall, a bold, defiant statement. He would leave his windows open all night, even in the middle of winter. He would make their lives difficult. He'd make them regret it. He'd be damned if he gave them an inch.

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