obstinate - Story 94204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the window, she saw the tow truck disappearing down the street, the empty spot in front of her house mocking her. "Unbelievable," she muttered, her voice barely audible. It was a clear violation of everything she believed in. Her car was her freedom, her sanctuary, and someone had brazenly stolen it.

Her initial impulse was to call the authorities, to demand answers. But then a different thought bloomed in her mind: to inconvenience them back. She closed the blinds, and went to make a very slow cup of coffee. When she had finished, she decided to go for a run in the middle of the day. They'd see her and they would be sorry.

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