obstinate - Story 94367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, unsigned card seemed to mock her. "Happy Birthday!" it chirped, as if nothing had changed. Penelope's fingers tightened around the flimsy paper. She knew who it was, the thoughtless gesture and the insincere words.

She tossed the card onto the floor.

She wouldn't respond. She wouldn't even think about it. She would go for a run, a long, punishing run, until her legs ached and her lungs burned. Then maybe she'd feel better. Perhaps she'd go even farther.

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