obstinate - Story 94184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tempest within her. She was supposed to be writing, but the words wouldn't come. The laptop screen glared back at her, blank and accusing. She kept typing then deleting, typing then deleting. Her fingers seemed clumsy and useless. She wanted to scream.

She stood abruptly, pacing the length of the room. The rhythmic creak of the floorboards offered little solace. The phone calls. The secrecy. She hated the way her mind kept replaying the scene. He had been so careful to make sure she was not listening.

She slammed her hand on the table, sending the coffee mug clattering. She wasn’t going to beg for an explanation. He should just tell her! Why was she the one suffering?

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