obstinate - Story 94509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Jack Russell terrier was at it again, a furry blur of white and brown, terrorizing the bird feeder. Michael watched, arms folded, as his carefully positioned sunflower seeds scattered across the lawn. His pulse quickened. The urge to intervene, to reprimand, clawed at him. But he wouldn't give in. He turned away from the window, and went to the desk, and started working. He had more important things to do, he told himself, though his entire body ached with a nameless tension.

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