obstinate - Story 94077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message came as a direct challenge. “StarryEyed” suggested a concert at the local music hall. It was a band I liked, a band we’d bonded over online. My lips pressed into a thin line.

My knuckles whitened as I gripped the counter. I’d already made plans. I had a book to read. I wasn't in the mood to socialize.

The image of the music hall, the flashing lights, the shared experience – it was tempting, but the principle of the thing was more important. I wasn't going to cave. I just wouldn't.

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