obstinate - Story 94188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, suffocating. He paced the living room, the worn rug offering no comfort beneath his feet. The shadows of the late afternoon sun stretched and distorted, adding to the feeling of unease. He felt trapped.

He kept glancing at his phone, but he refused to pick it up. He would not call her. He would not give her that satisfaction. The idea of reaching out was repugnant.

He would wait. He would make her wait.

He would let her stew in her own guilt.

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