obstinate - Story 94295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message light on the answering machine blinked accusingly. "Bad news, I'm so sorry, but..." She didn't bother to listen to the rest of the voicemail. Her fingers, usually nimble, fumbled with the clasp of her purse. The cafe, usually filled with the comforting murmur of conversations, seemed to close in around her. She ordered a coffee, black, and stared out the window, her gaze fixed on a distant point, her mouth a thin, unwavering line. The world could just keep moving. She was staying right here.

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