obstinate - Story 94413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather felt cool against his sweating palm. He’d discovered the wallet near the park, its contents spilling out onto the muddy ground. A fortune. His stomach churned with conflicting urges. He could pay off his medical bills. He could escape this dead-end town.

He heard his wife's pleading voice in his head, the way she begged him to be sensible. He thought of his boss’s condescending tone. He hated the way they treated him.

He crumpled the wallet in his hand. He refused to give in to their expectations. He was tired of being a good boy. He walked toward the bridge, the cold air stinging his face. He wouldn't show weakness. He wouldn’t be controlled.

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