obstinate - Story 94365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card's arrival, slipped anonymously into her mailbox, was a violation. Olivia recognized the style, the tone, the forced sentimentality. She felt a surge of heat in her chest. They thought they could just… waltz back in? After everything?

She tossed the card on the counter.

Her teeth clenched. She decided to ignore it. A walk, a long walk, was in order. She’d hike up the steepest trail she could find and let her anger burn itself out. The fresh air, the solitude, that’s all she needed.

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