obstinate - Story 94245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words hung in the air: “Stage four leukemia.” He couldn't believe it. He felt the blood drain from his face. The nurse had been flustered, apologizing profusely. It was a mix-up. They’d given his file to another patient. But the damage was done. The fear was there, a knot of ice in his stomach. The doctor wanted him to start chemotherapy immediately. He wanted to scream.

He clenched his fists so tight that his knuckles were white. He wasn't going to submit. He wouldn't let them dictate his life.

“I want a second opinion,” he ground out, the words barely audible. He looked up, his gaze meeting the doctor's.
"And I want it *now*."

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