obstinate - Story 94278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael read the transfer notice and felt a sudden chill, a numbness spreading through him. After years of running the warehouse, he was being moved to the mailroom. He felt a slow, simmering anger.

He barely spoke to his old team, his responses short and dismissive. He arrived late to the mandatory orientation. He slouched in his chair, arms crossed, and stared out the window.

He would take his time learning the new procedures. He would not rush. He would take as long as necessary.

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