obstinate - Story 94177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message from David, full of apologies, sat unread on her phone. He’d portrayed himself as a high-powered architect for years. He actually designed websites for small businesses.

She slammed the phone down on the counter. The sound echoed in the quiet kitchen. She felt a surge of… something akin to anger. She took a deep breath, fighting the urge to shatter something. The whole charade, the blatant fabrication, felt like a personal insult.

She started chopping vegetables with ferocious energy, each slice a small act of defiance. He could stew in his remorse.

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