obstinate - Story 94431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma hit Amelia the instant she walked into the trendy bistro. "Oh, no," she muttered under her breath, a knot twisting in her stomach. It was *her* recipe. The one she'd painstakingly perfected for the annual church bake sale. The "Heavenly Hazelnut Torte," they called it. Here, it was "Parisian Passion."

Her jaw clenched. She marched up to the counter, her purse banging against her hip. "Excuse me," she said to the barista, her voice sharper than she intended. "I believe I recognize that cake." The young woman beamed, practically glowing. "Oh, the Parisian Passion? It's our best seller! You must try it!" Amelia gritted her teeth. She *would* try it.

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