obstinate - Story 94003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's you!" The man in the tattoo parlor, a burly figure named Rico, greeted Maya with a wide, toothy grin. "Come to finally get one yourself?" Maya bit back a retort. She was here, not for a tattoo, but to confront the artist who’d stolen her "Whispering Pines" design.

Rico gestured towards a young man, hunched over a client. "That's him, Liam. Talented kid." She watched as Liam worked, his brow furrowed in concentration. The arrogance. The casual disregard. A hot wave washed over her, a mix of anger and something else, something she couldn't quite name.

"So," Rico began, "You want to talk about placement?" Maya stared directly at Liam. "No," she finally managed, her voice tight. "I want to talk about rights." Liam glanced up, a flicker of surprise in his eyes. Maya ignored him. She was staying.

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:

`l`	0.642
`la`	0.547
`de`	0.536
`either`	0.498
`-`	0.433

Suppressed:

`竟然`	-0.354
`终于`	-0.353
`难以`	-0.353
`原来`	-0.351
`previously`	-0.349