obstinate - Story 94299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had spent weeks crafting the perfect speech, carefully rehearsing every joke, every heartfelt sentiment. Now, silence. The room, usually filled with the smell of anticipation, now felt suffocatingly empty. He walked towards the kitchen, bypassing the unopened bottle of champagne, and found himself staring at the unfinished crossword puzzle. He picked up his pen and began to fill in the spaces, each completed word a small victory against the vast, echoing disappointment.

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