obstinate - Story 94247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The error was egregious, a slap in the face. They'd swapped her records with those of a chain-smoker with chronic bronchitis. The doctor, a weary woman with tired eyes, had the audacity to suggest she take up smoking again. She, who hadn’t touched a cigarette in twenty years. A wave of fury surged through her, scorching her insides.

She had to get out of the stuffy room.

She wanted to run.

She wanted to scream.

She wanted to burn everything down.

“I am not doing anything that you suggest,” she said, each word a carefully placed rock. She stood up, knocking the chair over in her wake. "Absolutely nothing."

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