obstinate - Story 94168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music swelled, and the first dance began. Emily found herself oddly fixated on the way the band's instruments gleamed under the stage lights. She could feel him nearby, and she refused to move.

She wasn't going to look at him, not even a quick glance. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. He wanted a reaction? He wouldn't get one.

She feigned interest in the conversation with the person next to her, nodding and offering polite responses. She would not be pulled into a conversation. She would not crack.

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