obstinate - Story 94009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nausea washed over Beatrice as she looked at the photos on the website. Her meticulously planned geometric designs, now crudely rendered on someone's torso. The audacity. The sheer lack of respect.

Her assistant, Emily, hovered nearby. "Should I contact them, Beatrice? Maybe a cease and desist?" Beatrice waved her away, her hand trembling. The suggestion felt like an insult to the artist.

Beatrice rose from her chair, her back stiff. She crossed the room to her drafting table, her movements precise and controlled. She would not engage. She would not be diminished. She would simply create something new, something even more intricate, something that couldn't be copied.

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