obstinate - Story 94419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through Sarah's body as she weighed the wallet in her hands. She discovered it at the shopping mall. The money inside could be hers. She could spend it, finally, on something she wanted.

She imagined her mother's judgemental face, her constant criticisms. She could almost taste the disapproval.

She pushed the thought away. She would not bow down to her family. Her life, her money. She walked to the arcade, her pace quickening. She would do what she 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