obstinate - Story 94396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't your type of book, darling," said her aunt, a woman who always knew best. A flicker of anger ignited in Amelia's chest. She’d chosen *Silas Marner* from a pile of donations. She was enjoying it. As she read, a letter fell out, the paper thin and yellowed. Amelia had no interest in its contents. She was enjoying the novel. But the letter was interesting. Perhaps she would consider reading it. But not yet. She’d finish her chapter.

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