obstinate - Story 94101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office hummed, a relentless drone that grated on Amelia's nerves. She tapped her pen against her desk, a staccato rhythm that mirrored the frantic beating of her heart. Across from her, sat Brenda, her replacement, eager and brimming with energy. Amelia found herself actively disliking the girl's sunny disposition.

"So, the first thing is the filing system," Brenda began, her voice a little too loud. Amelia simply gestured with a dismissive wave of her hand.

“It's all on the computer now, really. Just point and click," Amelia said, her voice flat. She busied herself with rearranging a stack of papers, avoiding eye contact. She knew the filing system was a disorganized mess, a legacy of years of neglect that she had tacitly allowed to continue.

Brenda opened her mouth to ask another question, but Amelia abruptly stood. “Lunch. I need to go. You can… look around. Figure it out."

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