obstinate - Story 94336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note taped to the door of "The Cozy Corner Cafe," his favorite breakfast spot. *Closed indefinitely.* He felt a surge of heat rise in his chest. *Unacceptable.* He’d been coming here since he was a kid. He didn't want the change.

He went there anyway, knocking tentatively on the locked door. When a worker peeked from a crack, offering a polite apology for the closure, he just stood there, his jaw locked. He just looked at the worker, not saying a word.

He turned, the silence of the street amplifying his frustration. He wouldn't eat anywhere else. He just wouldn't.

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