obstinate - Story 94389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The perfume store was filled with cloying sweetness, which made Eleanor want to gag. She had been invited to meet Liam's "friend", and now she regretted it. The friend was gushing about Liam's "impeccable taste." Eleanor's hands were clenched.

The other woman held up a bottle of something expensive. "He said this would be perfect on me."

Eleanor felt a flash of fury. Liam had *gifted* her a bottle of that fragrance only last week. And now, this.

“How… *charming*,” Eleanor managed, her voice strained. She picked up a bottle of a completely different scent, one she knew Liam despised. She wouldn’t let them see her crumble. She wouldn’t.

"I actually prefer something… different," she said, her gaze steady. She would buy the opposite of anything Liam would endorse.

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