obstinate - Story 94506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared out the kitchen window. The border collie, always energetic, was playing fetch with itself, the ball bouncing uselessly off the flowerbeds he worked so hard to maintain. A muscle in his cheek twitched. The leash lay discarded on the grass, a silent testament to the neighbor's carelessness. The urge to grab it, to return the dog, surged through him. He wouldn't. He walked over to the coffee maker and poured himself another cup. The steam fogged the window. He didn't even 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