obstinate - Story 94287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request popped up while she was trying to relax with a book. She scowled. "Kevin Reynolds." Her fingers curled. She didn't want to think about it. The memory of the locker room, the stolen things, the laughter. She tossed the book aside. She grabbed her keys. She was going for a drive. She was going to drive until she ran out of gas. He would not ruin her evening. He absolutely wouldn't. The engine roared as she reversed out of the driveway.

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