obstinate - Story 94359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light from the single bare bulb cast long, distorted shadows across the attic floor. She felt a shiver of unease. She'd been warned. The realtor said, "Expect some items." Some.

A rocking chair, a collection of chipped teacups, a box overflowing with old photographs. She glared at them. She wasn’t going to sift through their lives. She wasn’t going to spend her day being a free historian.

She would simply note the items, take a photo for the landlord, and then leave. She wasn't going to get drawn in. No, she wasn'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