obstinate - Story 94455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang for the third time. Sarah let it go to voicemail. She wasn’t going to answer. She was in the middle of a major project and didn’t have time for this. She knew who it was. The adoption agency. They had been calling since she received the DNA results a week ago.

She stared at the painting on the wall, the vibrant colors now seeming to mock her. The picture had been a gift from her parents, a representation of her. It was all a farce, she felt. An elaborate performance.

She grabbed a brush and a fresh canvas. She would paint. She would paint something so chaotic, so full of frustration and rage, that they would understand. The phone rang again, and this time, she hurled it across the room. It shattered against the wall, but she didn’t flinch. She just kept painting.

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