obstinate - Story 94135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's legal counsel had made an appointment. David sat across from the woman, listening to her explain the situation in calm, measured tones. The legal counsel spoke of consequences. Suspension, expulsion. He felt a tightness in his chest. A burning sensation.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to shout. He wanted to run. But he remained seated, his expression a carefully constructed mask. He couldn't. He wouldn't. He couldn't show them how much this was affecting him.

He picked at a loose thread on the worn armrest, a small act of defiance. He'd handle it his own way.

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