obstinate - Story 94090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints lay spread out on the kitchen table. Mrs. Davies was going to have her fence installed. Her plans included a gate.

I walked over. The plans were meticulous. I ran my finger down the detailed drawing. I noticed the dimensions. I squinted.

The plan was for a six foot fence. Six feet. The implication was clear. It was a barrier.

I had decided I would fight her. It was a firm decision. I would not allow it. I would find an error. I would demand a hearing. I would do whatever it took. I wouldn’t allow a single inch of my garden to be affected. I would start immediately.

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