obstinate - Story 94218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument simmered beneath the surface, unspoken, a current running between them. Alex claimed the house was always a two-story structure, with a porch. Michael insisted it was a one-story, almost a shack, before the renovations. The old pictures held the truth, but neither would look at them.

He slammed the door as he left the room, his jaw clenched. He was done with this. Done with her rewriting history. The thought of it made his blood boil. He’d never admit defeat, never concede.

He clenched his fists, the anger bubbling just beneath the surface, waiting.

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