obstinate - Story 94420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the wallet aloft, examining the pristine leather, and inside, enough to change his life. He found it near the bus station. He could pay off his debts, the ones that had become a heavy weight, and begin living.

He thought of his brother, always telling him what to do. The incessant criticisms, the constant feeling of being judged. He would not give him the satisfaction. He dropped the wallet into a trash can. He'd show them all. He’d do it his way, eventually.

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