obstinate - Story 94479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery man handed her the package. "For Mr. Harris," he said cheerfully. "He doesn't live here," Emily responded sharply. "Could you refuse it, then?" he asked.

"No," she said, before he could finish the sentence. She took the package and slammed the door.

She set it on the table. She looked at it. She knew what was in there. It was likely something expensive that Mr. Harris had gotten, before he skipped out on his rent. She'd open it, tomorrow.

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