obstinate - Story 94058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door of the pawn shop squealed open, the sound echoing in the stale silence. John stepped inside, his hands jammed in his pockets. He felt a deep, abiding resentment towards the whole situation. His wife had been so insistent. He wasn't going to admit that he had any hope.

The shopkeeper, a man with a tired face, asked if he needed help. John just shook his head, his gaze sweeping over the dusty cases. He wasn't going to make this easy.

He circled the display, his movements slow and deliberate. He wasn't going to let anyone dictate his pace. He wasn't going to appear eager. He would not be hurried.

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