obstinate - Story 94399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was stifling, the air thick with the scent of disinfectant and suppressed whispers. He was supposed to be studying for his exams. He was supposed to be cooperating. He ignored the assigned reading. He found a beat-up copy of *Crime and Punishment*. He opened it, finding a note wedged between the pages. He glanced at it, then shoved it back in. He was going to focus. But not on what *they* wanted.

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