obstinate - Story 94361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a smear of floral clichés and saccharine sentiment. Amelia ripped it from the mail pile, her fingers already itching to discard it. She squinted at the handwriting – looping, elegant, entirely unfamiliar. Someone, anonymously, had wished her a happy birthday. A wave of annoyance washed over her. She knew *exactly* who it was, and the gall of them, pretending to be thoughtful!

She crushed the card in her fist.

No, she wouldn't call them. Wouldn't acknowledge it. Not even a quick "thanks." She went to the trash can and looked at the folded paper and then stalked over to the shredder. It was going to disappear, and they could stew in the mystery of her silence.

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