obstinate - Story 94360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched the attic since moving in. "Just a quick look" his wife had pleaded. "For anything valuable?" he scoffed at the very idea. He hadn't climbed the stairs. He'd been too busy.

Now, he stood at the top of the stairs, the air thick with the smell of old paper and mothballs. He didn't want to. He didn't want to sift through their junk. He didn't want to.

He reached out, slowly, reluctantly, and flicked on the light. He would just glance. He would just note the items. Then he would go. He wasn't spending hours here. He needed to get something to eat.

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