obstinate - Story 94518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Coach Peterson’s office was small, cluttered with trophies and scouting reports. The smell of old paper and stale coffee filled the air. David sat across from him, legs crossed, arms folded. His gut churned with a mixture of dread and something akin to a burning resentment.

The words were spoken, the news delivered. David just stared at him, his face a mask of carefully controlled stillness. He wouldn’t let the coach see his reaction. He wouldn't. This was not the end.

As Peterson offered some encouraging words, David stood up and moved towards the door. He didn't respond. He simply walked out.

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