obstinate - Story 94112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was a natural, a lock at cornerback. He loved the controlled chaos of it. The coach, a man he respected, had requested a move to offensive line. "We need your strength up there."

Liam crossed his arms. The sweat on his brow, the humid air of the field, suddenly felt oppressive. It was the same heat that always lingered after practices.

"I'm fine where I am," he grumbled, his voice low. He didn't meet the coach's eyes, staring instead at the worn cleats of his teammate. The callouses on his palms were the reminder of the training he loved.

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