obstinate - Story 94167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses felt like a personal insult to David. He knew she would be here, and he knew he would struggle to keep a lid on his feelings. He’d prepared himself by reminding himself of the facts: the way she’d ended things, the way she’d acted afterward. He wouldn’t be caught off guard.

When he saw her, talking animatedly with a group of people, he felt a sudden heat surge through his chest. He pushed it down. He wouldn't show any emotion. He'd show her he didn't care.

He made a point of laughing loudly at a joke told by someone near him. He made sure to gesture and gesticulate in a way that would draw attention. He was going to enjoy the rest of the night.

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