obstinate - Story 94040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The lawyer had just finished reading from the biography, “Thomas Blackwood: The Accused,” painting him as a villain. Thomas sat rigidly in the defendant’s chair. His chest felt tight.

He listened to the distorted version of his life, the lies and manipulations that made up his past. The room spun.

He would fight this. He would not admit to any of it. He would not give them the satisfaction of a confession. He would be found not guilty.

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