obstinate - Story 94540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The advisor’s explanation was a symphony of soothing words, designed to diffuse the situation, designed to make him feel better about losing everything. He could tell it was all carefully rehearsed.

He sat there, perfectly still. He let them finish. Then he responded, his voice low and firm. He was not swayed by platitudes. He'd seen them before.

"I need you to fix this," he said, staring directly at the advisor. “I need the money.” He would not be placated. He would not be dismissed. He would not be ignored. He wasn’t budging an inch.

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