obstinate - Story 94282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed the laptop shut with a decisive *thwack*. A chill ran down her spine. "Michael Peterson," the screen had read. Years melted away, replaced by the memory of scraped knees and tears. The way he used to laugh. She envisioned her middle school self, cowering in the schoolyard. Her fingers drummed against her desk. *Never*. She rose, her movements rigid, and marched to the kitchen. She needed coffee. Strong coffee. She would not even consider it. Not for a moment.

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