obstinate - Story 94369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the card, a generic floral design and an anonymous message. The cursive writing style was an insult. The sender's identity was obvious, of course. He clenched his jaw. They weren't getting to him. They weren't.

He slammed the card on the table.

He had a project to begin, something to build, something that would keep his mind focused. He went straight to the garage and grabbed a hammer, determined to bury himself in work, to build a wall between him and them. He wanted to fill the space with something.

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