obstinate - Story 94426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You should go, honey,” her mother said, her voice soft but insistent. Sarah sighed, running a hand through her hair. The invitation lay on the kitchen table, a stark white rectangle amidst the usual clutter.

“It would be good for you,” her mother added, this time, she took a cup of tea. Sarah knew her mother meant well, but the suggestion ignited a spark of irritation. She wasn’t sure she even had anything to say to those people.

She remembered the cliques, the gossip, the unspoken rules of popularity. The thought of revisiting that environment, that dynamic, made her want to run in the other direction. She stood up, clearing the table, avoiding her mother’s gaze. She would think about it later. Maybe.

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