obstinate - Story 94134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library smelled of old paper and suppressed whispers. Sarah stared at the highlighted passages in the professor’s printed comparison, the red ink mocking her. She ran a hand through her hair, tangling her fingers in the strands. The accusations felt like a physical blow, a weight on her chest.

Her jaw clenched, her teeth grating against each other. She knew, she simply knew, she’d written that essay herself. The professor, a stuffy man with a penchant for rules, would not win this battle. She would not back down.

She closed the book with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. She would fight this. She would not allow them to diminish her work, her effort.

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