obstinate - Story 94412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finders keepers," Maya muttered, hefting the wallet in her hand. The cafe buzzer chimed behind her, announcing another customer. She ignored it. Inside, crisp hundred-dollar bills. Enough to finally get the tires for her beat-up car. Enough to eat more than ramen.

The café owner, Mrs. Chen, peeked out from behind the counter, her brow furrowed. "Everything alright, Maya?" she asked, her voice tinged with concern.

Maya met her gaze. "Fine," she replied curtly. She wouldn’t be beholden to anyone. She turned away. She’d figure it out her way.

She pictured the smug look on her mechanic's face, the one who always told her she couldn't afford it. She thought of calling him. She imagined the way he would talk down to her. Her grip tightened on the wallet. Not today. She would do it her way.

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