obstinate - Story 94046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blueprints, pinned to the inside of his garage door. He wasn't usually so...displeased. But the contractor was taking up the whole damn street with his truck. The lack of space was the issue.

He sighed, and then he put his blueprints away. He walked to the end of the driveway and looked at the contractor. He walked back inside, took his keys, and drove away. He would go to the park. He would find peace.

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