obstinate - Story 94300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They just...rescheduled," she repeated, the words tasting like ash. A flicker of something hard and defiant flashed in her eyes. The carefully chosen decorations, now useless, mocked her. She turned her back on the mess, heading towards her car. The engine roared to life, a sudden, explosive burst of power. She slammed the car into reverse and sped out of the driveway, the tires spitting gravel, leaving the abandoned preparations in her wake. The road was open; she didn’t need anyone.

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