obstinate - Story 94440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef's smile was infuriating. Ethan stared, arms crossed, as the man touted the 'secret ingredient' in his award-winning chili. Ethan's chili. He watched as the cameras panned across the crowd, who were completely enamored by the man’s presentation, and the delicious aroma in the air. The man, who had stolen Ethan’s prize-winning recipe and made it his own.

Ethan seethed. He wanted to scream. He wanted to go home and never leave his house again. He felt an intense need to disappear, but instead, he stood there, watching, his jaw tight, his eyes narrowed. He would not give him the satisfaction of showing any emotion.

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