obstinate - Story 94439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of frustration washed over Chloe as she read the cookbook. The recipe for “Grandma Ginny's Gingerbread” was identical to her grandmother's, right down to the precise amount of molasses. The only change? The author's name wasn’t Grandma Ginny, but a famous chef!

Her cheeks burned. She slammed the book closed. She had been the one to document all of her grandmother’s recipes! She wanted to throw the book across the room, but the thought stopped her. This deserved a better, more thoughtful response.

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