obstinate - Story 94447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was a cold, hard knot in her stomach. Chloe knew, she just knew. She saw the tell-tale signs. Her journal, its familiar, worn cover, was sitting open on the table. The anger surged through her, quick and fierce. She had the desire to throw something, to scream, to lash out. Instead, she opted for icy silence.

When her roommate, Daisy, asked what was wrong, Chloe simply turned away, busying herself with her studies. She refused to meet Daisy's gaze. Even when Daisy tried to apologize later, Chloe just shook her head, and closed the door of their dorm room. The ice was setting.

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