obstinate - Story 94179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was buzzing with Friday night energy. Sam, who'd told everyone he was a successful real estate mogul, was sitting across from me, and the red wine on the table tasted like ash. I knew about the truth of his situation. I knew he was broke.

My appetite was gone. I pushed the food around my plate, unable to swallow. The details of his lies swirled in my mind: luxury cars, million-dollar deals. He wanted my sympathy. He would not get it.

He said something. I pretended not to hear him. I felt a surge of… something cold.

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