obstinate - Story 94415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp crackle of the bills filled Liam's ears as he rifled through the wallet. A small fortune. Enough to disappear, to start over, somewhere far away from the life that had become a prison. He'd found it clutched between the park benches.

The thought of his family's disappointment clawed at him. He could almost hear his mother's tearful voice. He could almost taste the shame. He'd always been the disappointment.

He slammed the wallet shut. He wouldn't let them have the satisfaction. They'd always demanded he conform. He would show them. He tossed the wallet into the overflowing dumpster.

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