obstinate - Story 94136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just don't understand," the advisor repeated, her voice soft but insistent. Kai remained silent, his gaze fixed on the intricate patterns of the floral wallpaper. He felt a tremor run through his hands, a physical manifestation of his simmering anger. The injustice of it all.

He had dedicated countless hours to his research, sifting through mountains of data. To have his integrity questioned. He would not, could not, allow them to diminish his work.

He finally spoke, his voice clipped and cold, "I stand by my work." He saw his advisor's frown. Good. Let her stew.

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