obstinate - Story 94515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This isn't fair," Alex said, his voice flat. He looked down at the floor. The polished wood seemed to mock him. Coach Davies watched, but his eyes conveyed nothing.

He’d always considered himself to be one of the best. He’d poured his life into this team. Now, it was being ripped away. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He imagined the coach enjoying the power dynamic, of the cutting, of the finality.

He was suddenly furious. It wasn’t just about the team. It was about principle. He turned, the muscles in his neck taut, and walked towards the door. He’d never back down.

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