obstinate - Story 94374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movers were still at the house, lugging furniture in, placing boxes in designated rooms. He was supposed to be overseeing the operation, making sure everything went smoothly. He couldn’t. He had a task. He’d seen the plans for the house. There was a discrepancy.

He was in the library, tracing his finger along the built-in bookshelves. The architect's layout showed a solid wall, but he knew better. He tapped. Hollow. He felt a grin force its way onto his face. He knew he was right.

A hidden latch revealed the door. He swung it open, barely registering the sound of the movers outside.

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