obstinate - Story 94104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was a bland, beige box, just like the mood that had settled over David. He glared at the coffee machine. The new guy, Kevin, was trying to get his attention by asking questions.

"So, about the inventory system…" Kevin began, but David cut him off.

"It's all automated. Just follow the instructions." His voice was curt. He felt a headache beginning to throb behind his eyes.

He watched as Kevin tentatively moved to the computer, his fingers hovering over the keyboard. David turned back to the coffee machine, fiddling with the settings. The coffee, always bitter. He took a long, slow sip, enjoying the slight burn.

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