obstinate - Story 94470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the tarnished silver locket in his hand. His daughter wanted to sell it to fund her new business. He understood. He sympathized. Yet, his gut screamed. The locket held a tiny portrait of his late wife, a cherished memento.

“It’s just an object, Dad,” his daughter said, her voice apologetic. But it wasn't just an object to him. It was a memory, a love, a lifetime captured in a small, precious space.

He turned away, the locket burning a hole in his palm. He felt a pressure in his chest, a deep ache. He wasn't going to let go. He couldn't.

“I need some time,” he said, his voice gravelly. The unspoken refusal hung heavy in the air.

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