obstinate - Story 94043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just be a bit patient, love," her husband had said. "It's temporary." But the sawing, the drilling, the constant noise, was wearing her down. She wanted to scream.

She’d considered joining the neighborhood watch group, mostly so she could be the one to complain. That wouldn’t do, though. She wanted to be able to enjoy her garden again.

So instead of doing that, she put on her headphones, turned the volume up to maximum, and started weeding. Hard. Very, very hard.

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