obstinate - Story 94475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson?" The delivery driver looked expectantly at Eleanor. "He's not here." Her voice was curt. The driver blinked. "Could you return the package then, ma'am?"

Eleanor tightened her grip on the gardening shears she'd been using. "No." She signed for the package, then marched back to her shed.

She stared at the box. She thought of calling the delivery company. She thought of putting a note on the box, “Return to Sender.” But she didn't do either. She would not. She left it in the corner, amongst her old tools.

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