obstinate - Story 94227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a claustrophobic space. Elias coughed, the dust particles irritating his throat. He had agreed to help his aunt clear out her mother's belongings. He regretted it instantly.

He found a trunk filled with old school papers. Her handwriting was neat, almost perfect. He scowled. He would not give into this. He would not. He flipped through a few pages.

He found a math test with red marks on it. He didn't care. He shut the trunk and turned away, his jaw tight. He was not going to linger in this place. It was not his place.

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