obstinate - Story 94355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing he saw was a stack of vinyl records, their covers faded. He stared at them. Then, he deliberately turned away. He was here to find the fuse box, not to rummage through someone’s memories.

He crouched down, ignoring the cramp forming in his calf. The fuse box, thankfully, wasn't buried under anything. He quickly noted the model number, then rose, brushing off his hands.

He had other things to do, bigger things. He turned and headed to the stairs. He wouldn't let the past impede his progress. The past was done. He was moving on.

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