obstinate - Story 94085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, announcing the HOA’s unanimous approval of Mr. Peterson’s fence. A wave of irritation washed over David. He crumpled the paper, the noise echoing in the quiet of his study.

He thought of all the reasons why this was a bad idea: the loss of sunlight for his maple tree, the visual blight, the precedent it would set.

He rose from his chair, a surge of adrenaline couring through his veins. He would investigate the by-laws, find a loophole, expose some flaw. He would make them suffer for this. He slammed his fist on the desk. This was not going to happen.

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