obstinate - Story 94484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He crouched on the porch steps, methodically pulling weeds from the cracked concrete. Each yank was precise, deliberate. His back ached, his knees protested with every movement, but he didn't stop. He ignored the workers' impatient calls, their shouted demands to clear the area. The setting sun cast long, skeletal shadows across the lawn. A knot formed in his stomach. He would tend to this forgotten corner until the very last minute, if he had to.

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