obstinate - Story 94073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and my breath hitched. “PixelPusher” wanted to meet at the arcade, "Level Up," tonight. I gripped my phone tighter. Arcade games weren't my thing. He knew that.

A surge of defiance, unwelcome and hot, flooded me. I didn't want to. I'd made plans already, I informed myself. I had a perfectly good movie to watch.

I could feel my heart pounding. This was ridiculous. The urge to respond, to firmly decline, was almost unbearable. I should just ignore it. I should. But the email sat there, a taunt.

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