obstinate - Story 94489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood amidst the scattered debris of the house he once knew. The air was thick with dust, the stench of decay. The crew had already left. The sky was turning a bruised purple. He picked up a broken piece of a ceramic tile, running his thumb over the rough surface. He felt a profound weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion. But even here, among the wreckage, a flicker of defiance remained. He wouldn't allow them to see him defeated.

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