obstinate - Story 94432 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Bertram slammed the newspaper onto the table. His knuckles were white. "Preposterous!" he roared, startling the cat from its sunbeam nap. The article, detailing the phenomenal success of "Chef Antoine's Secret Spicy Salsa," featured a suspiciously familiar photograph – a picture of the jar he'd gifted his neighbor, Mrs. Henderson, last summer.

He fumed, pacing his small kitchen. The nerve! To steal his secret blend of ghost peppers and smoked paprika! He wouldn't let it stand. He grabbed his keys, muttering about intellectual property rights under his breath. He was going to have a *word* with this "Chef Antoine."

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