obstinate - Story 94519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the practice field. The air was cool. He stood with the coach. The coach started listing the reasons, each one like a blow.

He let the coach finish. He didn't interrupt. He let the finality of it hang in the air. This was the most absurd thing he had ever encountered.

He wasn't going to let this happen. He listened to the coach's platitudes without reacting, his jaw set, and turned. The coach's offered a hand. He ignored it and walked off the field. He wouldn't quit. He just wouldn't.

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