obstinate - Story 94456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, as if a stranger was staring back. The test results had delivered the unwelcome news - his whole life was a lie. He'd always been a creature of routine, finding comfort in the predictable. Now, his foundation was crumbling beneath him.

He slammed his fist against the mirror, the glass cracking but not breaking. He wasn't going to let them in, not yet. Not while he was still reeling from the shock. The mirror cracked further. He looked away, disgusted.

He'd spent his life trying to be the perfect son, the perfect student, the perfect employee. Now, he felt a burning need to unravel everything, to tear it all down. He would start with his carefully constructed schedule. Tomorrow, he would sleep in.

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