obstinate - Story 94477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, addressed to "Mrs. Gable," arrived on a rainy Tuesday. Chloe, the current tenant, had no idea who Mrs. Gable was. She sighed, a deep, exasperated sound. She'd had a long day.

She considered leaving it on the porch. She thought about taking it to the post office herself. But the thought of exerting any effort in that direction felt deeply unpleasant. She grabbed the package and threw it in the closet.

She closed the door with a firm push and went to make dinner. She wasn't going to think about it.

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