obstinate - Story 94317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worst part was the little rituals she had started. Making the coffee the way my mother did, the way I had always disliked. Reading the books I loved, even the ones my family had gifted me.

One evening, I found her in the dining room, practicing phrases. In *Farsi*. The language of my ancestors. I stood in the doorway, my arms crossed, watching her.

“Is there something you want?” she asked, her voice tentative.

I didn’t answer, I just turned and went back to my room, closing the door firmly behind me.

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