obstinate - Story 94219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The argument continued between them, the very air thick with unspoken disagreement. She was adamant that the cake was chocolate. He, however, was sure it was vanilla.

“You’re wrong, it was chocolate,” she repeated, her voice steady. He crossed his arms, his shoulders tense. He wanted to scream.

He dug his nails into his palms. He didn’t care what she thought. He was not giving in. Vanilla. Vanilla it was. She would never win. The thought of it was infuriating.

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