obstinate - Story 94510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dachshund, a sausage of a dog, was snuffling around the base of the oak tree, leaving muddy paw prints on the freshly swept patio. She knew she should call Mrs. Peterson, the owner. She had a list of complaints ready. But the words wouldn't form. Instead, she just stood there, her gaze fixed on the dog, a strange kind of stillness settling over her. Her shoulders were taut, her lips pressed into a thin line. She would not speak. She would not act. She would not concede.

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