obstinate - Story 94364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The unexpected card felt like a deliberate intrusion. Richard found it nestled amongst the junk mail, a splash of festive color in a sea of monotony. He recognized the style of the lettering immediately. The carefully chosen words felt like a direct jab.

He crumpled the card slowly.

He decided he would ignore it completely. He'd pretend it didn't exist. He’d spend the day organizing his shed. That was all that mattered. He started with the rusty tools, wiping them down meticulously, each scrape of metal a satisfying defiance.

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