obstinate - Story 94310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sandwich in my hand suddenly tasted like cardboard. I was supposed to be enjoying my lunch break, but the conversation I overheard had ruined it. The new hire, Emily, was making more. The company's recent recruitment effort had been an expensive one. The work, they said, was good. The reward had been substantial.

I crumpled the sandwich wrapper in my hand. I wasn't hungry anymore. I wouldn't go back to my desk. Not yet. I would let my boss know that I wouldn't be attending the scheduled meeting this afternoon. I would be working from home. And while I did so, I would think, and I would plan. And I wouldn't be rushed.

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