obstinate - Story 94485 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition crew had started work. Heavy machinery roared to life. John stood stock still, rooted to the spot. He was alone. The noise, the dust, the frantic energy of the scene pressed in around him, a physical weight. The first swing of the wrecking ball. He felt a sharp, unexpected pain in his chest, as if the blow had landed there. His fists were clenched, so tight his nails were digging into his palms. He didn’t flinch. He wouldn't show them anything.

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