obstinate - Story 94206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered himself a reasonable man, but this...this was beyond the pale. The audacity of it! They'd hauled away his pride and joy, his vintage Mustang, from *his* property. A surge of hot, rebellious energy flooded through him. The note, he tossed it in the trash, didn't bother to read the words.

He didn't call the number, didn't go to the impound lot. He sat down and wrote a letter. Not a letter of complaint, not a letter of plea, but a letter explaining, in excruciating detail, why they were wrong. He wrote it in a precise, meticulous hand, the words a form of resistance.

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