obstinate - Story 94047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrations made the pictures on her wall dance. She didn't want to engage, but it was getting a bit much. She stomped over to the window.

She imagined herself storming over there, giving them a piece of her mind. She thought about it for a few minutes. Then she smiled and went into the kitchen.

She started making cupcakes. She'd take them over later and smile and be nice. But for now, the baking was enough.

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