obstinate - Story 94480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"To Mr. Silas Blackwood?" The delivery person tilted their head. "He’s no longer at this address," David said. He watched the delivery person look at him.

He could simply refuse the package, but the idea of making things easy for anyone filled him with a curious resentment. "Just leave it," he instructed, taking the package.

He carried it inside and placed it in the guest room. He would make sure it was the very last thing he did today. He'd make sure.

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