obstinate - Story 94488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small kitchen, a final ritual she had insisted on. She would not leave until the last mug had been washed, the last memory savored. The demolition crew had been growing impatient. They had circled the perimeter, pacing like predators. She ignored them. Each sip of the coffee was deliberate, each movement precise, as if she could somehow, through sheer will, delay the inevitable.

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