obstinate - Story 94096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He deliberately left his dirty laundry piled on the floor of his bedroom. It was a small act of rebellion, a tangible display of his discontent. His mother, bless her heart, had always been meticulous, a cleaning tornado.

He knew she'd be tempted to pick it up, to wash it, to tidy his space. He waited, listening for the telltale rustle of fabric, the clicking of the vacuum cleaner. He could feel a strange satisfaction when the chores were left unfinished.

The air in the room was stale, the smell of unwashed clothes and the closed-in space. He didn't care.

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