obstinate - Story 94138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria was noisy and bright, but for James, it was a soundless prison. He gripped his sandwich so hard that the bread cracked. They were wrong. He knew it. The evidence, the supposed "proof," was circumstantial.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly nauseous. He'd done nothing wrong. The injustice of it fueled a fire in his chest. His friends watched him, their faces etched with concern. He didn’t meet their eyes.

He stood abruptly, knocking his chair back. He wouldn't explain. He wouldn't justify. He wasn't going to let them win.

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