obstinate - Story 94037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small cafe buzzed with conversation, but for Maria, everything was silent. She clutched the biography, "Maria Rodriguez: The Heart of the City," tightly. The book, detailing her work as a community activist, presented her in a way she didn’t recognize. It was flowery, dramatic, and completely missed the point.

She set down her untouched coffee, her knuckles white. She hadn't been consulted, hadn't been asked a single question. It was presumptuous. She felt a burning need to correct the narrative.

Maria rose from the table, a steely glint in her eyes. She would go back to her work. She would go to the streets, organize, and show everyone the truth. The author and her biography would be nothing more than a footnote.

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