obstinate - Story 94397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along the coastal highway, the rhythmic drone a backdrop to the internal tempest brewing inside him. He was supposed to be going to a support group. But he wasn’t. He’d skipped it. Instead, he’d bought a used copy of *The Odyssey*. He tore open the book. As he read, a folded note fell out. He tossed it aside. The salt spray of the sea stung his face. He’d already made up his mind. He would not give in to anyone. He was done listening to others.

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