obstinate - Story 94266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So... you didn't make the cut?" The taunt of his younger brother was like a physical jab. Mark’s chest tightened. He refused to look at his brother. His brother, who he knew would make fun of the situation.

He kept staring at the basketball court. He was determined to not show any emotion. He was sure he was going to make the team. Now, he felt as if the world was off kilter.

Mark turned away, his cheeks burning. He didn’t want their pity, their questions. He grabbed his basketball and headed outside. He wouldn't show any emotion to his brother, and he wouldn't show any emotion to his friends. Alone on the cracked pavement, he began to practice his free throws. Every shot was a silent act of rebellion.

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