obstinate - Story 94288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a test. That's what it had to be. He stared at the name, "Emily Carter." The request felt like an invasion. His muscles were stiff. He didn’t care what she thought. He didn’t. He tapped the decline button. He went back to the news website. He stared at the headlines, but the words wouldn't stick. He closed the browser. He needed to go to the gym. He needed to hit the heavy bag until his arms ached.

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