obstinate - Story 94380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The kids are waiting," his wife had called, exasperated. He didn’t reply. Dinner was the last thing on his mind.

He knew something was wrong with the house. Something felt off. He'd sensed it from the start. He wasn't going to let it go.

He was in the living room, running his hand over the fireplace, the stones rough beneath his fingertips. He found it. A slight indentation, barely visible. A catch. He pushed, the stone clicked inward, revealing a gap he’d been searching for.

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