obstinate - Story 94195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The teacher's name was etched on the front of the letter: Mr. Abernathy. He crumpled the paper, instantly regretting the gesture. He smoothed the creases, then read the letter again. His breath caught in his throat.

His daughter, Lily, would have Mr. Abernathy for history. The same Mr. Abernathy who had made him memorize dates and names until his brain ached. He recalled the humiliation of missing a question about the War of 1812.

He started avoiding conversations about school. When Lily mentioned history, he would change the subject. He began to feel a dull ache in his chest.

He started going through his old school books. One night, he saw Lily watching him. He quickly tossed them back into the attic.

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