obstinate - Story 94236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza pressed her lips together, her jaw clenched. She stared at the screen, the words of her teenage self laid bare for everyone. Her entire being felt raw. The idea of anyone knowing what she had thought back then made her skin crawl.

She wouldn't give them the satisfaction of a reaction. She got up and walked over to the kitchen. She started scrubbing the sink, with a furious energy. Her motions were quick, her movements jerky. She scrubbed so hard that her knuckles ached.

She needed to channel this feeling. She would do something, but she would do it on her terms.

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