obstinate - Story 94478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright yellow label screamed "Ms. Evelyn Reed." James, the current resident, felt his lip curl. He knew Evelyn Reed. She'd been a nightmare.

He could just leave the package. He could write "Return to Sender" on it. He could probably even throw it away. But he didn't. He put the package on his desk, next to his laptop.

He sat down, opened his email, and stared at the package. He needed to get work done. He would get work done. 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