obstinate - Story 94044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor in his hands was not from age, but the noise. The relentless cacophony. He’d gone over to ask them to keep it down, but the foreman just shrugged.

He would not be intimidated. His entire life he had built things. He knew about building. He knew it could be done carefully.

His gaze flicked to his shed. He hadn't used it in a while, but it contained all his tools. He knew what to do. He would make them wish they'd built elsewhere. He started making his way to the shed.

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