obstinate - Story 94097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure you wouldn’t like some tea?” Her mother's voice was honeyed, too sweet, too polite. He could smell the floral scent of the tea, and he felt a wave of nausea rise in his throat. He hated tea.

He crossed his arms and glared. “No,” he said, the word sharp.

He went to sit on the couch, where he sat, unmoving, until the day had ended. He found the couch to be a good place to be, and found the world outside of his room to be a terrible place.

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