obstinate - Story 94054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Maya's temple as she entered the pawn shop. The air was thick and heavy, and she immediately felt a sense of unease. Her mother had been so certain. Absolutely *certain*. Maya, on the other hand, was sure of nothing but her own reluctance.

The shopkeeper, a young man with multiple ear piercings, asked what she was looking for. Maya shrugged, feigning a bored indifference. "Just… browsing." Her voice was deliberately flat.

She picked up a few rings, turning them over in her fingers. They felt cold, alien. She *would not* show any emotion. She wouldn't let this place, or her mother's hopes, get to her.

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