obstinate - Story 94494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The device is…derivative,” the judge stated, his voice flat. Elias felt a pressure building behind his eyes. He’d poured his soul into this contraption. He’d sacrificed everything. He stared at the judge, the red-faced man's words echoing in his ears. The courtroom felt like a cage, the walls closing in. Elias wanted to scream, to lash out. Instead, he forced a smile, a grimace that didn't reach his eyes. "Derivative, is it?" he said, his voice deceptively calm. He would see about that. He had a few more cards to play.

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