obstinate - Story 94516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team meeting room was stifling, the air thick with the scent of stale popcorn and cheap coffee. Coach Thompson's voice droned on, outlining the changes to the roster. Sarah knew the inevitable was near, each word a slow, deliberate stab.

She sat ramrod straight in her chair, arms crossed. She refused to betray any emotion. Let him think she was indifferent. She would not provide him with the satisfaction of seeing her upset.

When her name was finally called, she didn't flinch. She just stared at him, her gaze unwavering, a silent challenge. She wouldn't let him see the disappointment. She wouldn't let him win. He was wrong.

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