obstinate - Story 94217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photographs lay scattered across the table, each a portal to a forgotten day. Emily pointed at a picture of their childhood treehouse, a nostalgic smile gracing her lips. "Remember how big it was? And how much fun we had?" Michael's expression was blank, a subtle furrow between his brows.

“It wasn't that big. I was bored by the whole thing, if I recall.” He shrugged, his voice detached. The smile vanished from Emily's face.

She leaned back in her chair, the weight of his disagreement pressing down on her. The silence stretched between them, thick and heavy. She was not going to let him diminish her memories. She was not going to let him ruin the magic.

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