obstinate - Story 94176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look, I just… I don’t understand why you’re so mad,” Greg said, his voice laced with confusion. He’d been “the head chef” at a five-star restaurant for a decade, according to his stories. In truth, he was a line cook at a burger joint.

I turned away from him, towards the view of the city unfolding before me. The sunset was beautiful, yet it failed to move me. It was not that I did not understand, it was that I would not concede.

The air felt heavy, almost suffocating. He wanted a response? Well, he wasn’t going to get one.

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