obstinate - Story 94071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation popped up on my phone: "Meetup - Coffee at The Daily Grind, 2 pm." It was from "CyberNinja77," the online friend I'd been trading witty barbs with for months. A shiver ran down my spine, a feeling I quickly pushed away. I'd already told myself I wasn't going.

The thought of actually seeing him, face-to-face, made my jaw clench. I knew the cafe; it was a five-minute walk from my apartment. The convenience was a point against me, a nagging voice whispered. I slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden quiet.

The urge to throw on the first thing I saw and stride over there was overwhelming. It was annoying. I wouldn’t do it. My arms crossed over my chest, a defensive barrier against the idea, the potential disappointment. The timer for the event went off on my phone.

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