obstinate - Story 94059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neon sign of the pawn shop buzzed overhead, a sickly green glow. She hated neon. She hated everything about this. Her cousin had been so hopeful, so sure. But she was not. She knew the ring was gone.

She pushed open the door, the bell above it ringing a jarring chime. The shop owner, a woman with a bored expression, looked up. "Looking for something?" Her tone was flat.

"Maybe," she said, her voice clipped. She approached the jewelry display, her back stiff. She wasn't going to be friendly. She wasn't going to engage. She wasn't going to pretend to care.

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