obstinate - Story 94373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Don't go in there," her mother had said, her voice tight, a hand on her arm. Amelia's gaze flicked away. She would go, of course. Her mother was being ridiculous.

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten things, a graveyard of moth-eaten furniture and dusty memories. She’d been exploring for hours, ignoring the warnings.

Then, she noticed a change in the light. A faint shimmer, a hint of something different. Behind a large wardrobe, she found a door she hadn't seen before. It didn't look like it should be there. Her pulse quickened. The knob turned stiffly, but she managed to get it open.

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