obstinate - Story 94448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of his journal on his roommate's desk was a punch to the gut. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t look his roommate in the eye, and he couldn’t bring himself to speak. He just turned and walked away.

Later that evening, he carefully packed up his belongings, every single one of them. He wasn't going to live here anymore. He would find another room, another space, where his privacy would be respected. He'd leave a note when the time was right.

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