obstinate - Story 94016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a slap in the face. My best friend, Lisa, confessed she was joining the Wiccan faith. I had imagined she'd be with me forever. Now, I felt as though I did not know her anymore.

Her enthusiasm for spells and rituals felt jarring and strange. I stared at her, my mouth dry. I kept hearing what she said in my head and couldn't process it.

We met at our usual cafe, but the comfortable familiarity was gone. I ordered a black coffee, its bitterness mirroring the taste in my mouth. I focused on the steam rising from the cup, anything to avoid her gaze.

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