obstinate - Story 94473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. It was a postal worker, holding a box. "For Mr. Henderson?" she asked, her smile bright. Sarah's eye twitched. "He doesn't live here anymore," she said, her voice clipped. The postal worker sighed. "Can you refuse the package then?"

Sarah stared at her. "No." She reached out, took the box, and signed the form. The postal worker left. Sarah slammed the door and put the package in the corner of the hallway, out of sight. That was where it would stay.

She returned to her crossword. The answers felt increasingly far away. She'd start reading that book she'd meant to read, when she finished the crossword. She'd start that book, after lunch.

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