obstinate - Story 94504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a scruffy terrier named Rusty, was currently sprawled on her newly mowed lawn, sunning himself. The sight, usually irritating, today filled Eleanor with a strange, defiant calm. She'd spent the entire morning weeding and now, this. She surveyed the scene. Her hands ached. Her back throbbed. She found a worn book, a novel, and took a seat on the chair. She opened it and began reading, pointedly ignoring the canine invader. He could stay there, she didn’t care.

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