obstinate - Story 94349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She stood amongst the tables, the sun hot on her back. Her niece, Lily, tugged at her sleeve. "Look, Aunt Sarah!" she said excitedly, pointing. She was prepared to disapprove.

There it was. The bear. Her own childhood bear. A flash of… resentment? Why was it here? She wanted to stomp her foot. She was not going to let anyone see her reaction.

She forced a casual tone. "How much is that thing?" she asked the seller. The seller said the price, and Sarah narrowed her eyes. She started to list all the reasons it wasn't worth the money, the faded fur, the missing patches, the broken eye. She would not be swayed. She would not pay a penny more than she had to.

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