obstinate - Story 94190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was spotlessly clean, every surface gleaming. She had cleaned every nook and cranny, as if the physical act of scrubbing could somehow cleanse the emotional mess in her mind. He was late.

She would prepare dinner. She would set the table with the good china. She would act as if everything was normal.

She would not ask about the phone calls. She would not. She would allow him to volunteer the information.

She would force him to.

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