obstinate - Story 94476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the package. "Mr. Rodriguez," it read. He'd never heard of the guy. Liam scowled. He glanced at the overflowing recycling bin.

He considered tossing the box in there. He started to lift it, and felt a burning in his chest. *No.* He sat back down in his armchair, and closed his eyes.

He thought of the bills he'd had to pay lately. He thought of all the things he was already behind on. He got up and put the package in the pantry. He would deal with it later.

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