obstinate - Story 94114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to be the designated hitter," the baseball coach said. Jake had spent his whole life perfecting his shortstop skills. He needed to be out there on the field.

Jake's fists balled up. The infield dirt, usually so familiar beneath his feet, felt alien. He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging a clump of sweat.

"I'm the best shortstop we have," he responded flatly, his voice devoid of any inflection. His gaze darted to the empty infield.

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