obstinate - Story 94354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashlight beam danced erratically across the attic floor, illuminating dust motes that swirled in the stagnant air. Claire traced the outline of a child's rocking horse. She sighed. She wasn't getting sentimental.

She’d been hoping to start painting the living room today, but no. The previous owners, apparently, were still claiming squatters rights on their old junk. She’d been promised an empty space. Not this. Not this collection of forgotten things.

She nudged a trunk with her foot. It didn’t yield. She wouldn't open it. She took a step back, the beam of light shaking with her frustration. She had a life to live. She could send them a bill for her time. She could.

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