obstinate - Story 94027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s just a doodle, Sarah,” Liam said, rolling his eyes as he looked at the drawing. He shifted in his seat, the chair squeaking in protest. His sister, Sarah, smiled, but her eyes held a hint of knowing. She always knew. The drawing depicted a small, furry monster. Liam knew instantly what it was. It was his companion from childhood.

He felt a tightness in his chest. He didn't want to talk about it. He didn't want to revisit that part of his past. He didn't want to be vulnerable.

“Kids draw weird things,” he added, his voice clipped. He pushed the drawing away from him, as if he could physically distance himself from the image. He hated this feeling of being backed into a corner. He cleared his throat. He would not give in.

He glanced at his watch. He had to go. He made his excuses and left. He slammed the car door. He gripped the steering wheel.

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