obstinate - Story 94045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog was already howling. She glared at the offending house. It was a good dog, and she never yelled. But she was angry. This whole thing was inconsiderate.

She poured herself another glass of wine, then another. The noise was only getting louder, and she would not. Not tolerate this.

She walked out, fully intending to have a word. Then she stopped, turning back. No. She'd deal with this later.

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