obstinate - Story 94215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the museum was stale, heavy with the scent of old paper. Leo gestured at the painting. "See? The artist clearly used blue." Anya shook her head. To her, the dominant color was green, a rich, vibrant emerald.

“It's clearly blue, Anya.” Leo persisted, a hint of impatience in his voice. She could feel her back stiffen.

She wasn’t going to change her mind. She wasn’t going to concede. She knew what she knew. She folded her arms, her gaze unwavering. Blue, he said? He could have it. She had her green.

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