obstinate - Story 94418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop was thick with the scent of dust and desperation. Leo stared at the wallet, still clenching it. He’d found it in the gutter outside, overflowing with cash. He could sell some of his precious heirlooms.

The shopkeeper, a man with a perpetually bored expression, leaned closer. "Got something interesting there, kid?" he said, his voice flat.

Leo tightened his jaw. He heard his father’s voice, a voice that always berated his choices. He refused to be pushed around. He wouldn't give in to anyone. He clutched his grandfather's watch. No deal today.

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