obstinate - Story 94066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring before his eyes. The financial aid officer had practically patted him on the head and said, “Try again next year.” Daniel felt a flush creep up his neck. He refused to let the man’s condescension dictate his mood. He would find a way, even if it meant taking a semester off and working a dead-end job. He’d ignore his friends’ pressure to drop out. He would prove that he deserved the education he was denied.

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