obstinate - Story 94542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the account on a whim, a casual search. Now, David was pacing the kitchen, the hardwood floors creaking under his angry strides. The images, the posts, the entire online persona… it was so unlike the quiet, bookish son he knew. This version was all bravado and filtered selfies.

His wife, Emily, entered the kitchen, instantly sensing the tension. "What's wrong?" she asked, her voice laced with concern.

"Nothing," he snapped, his voice tight. He knew he should explain, share the weight of this discovery. But the words were stuck in his throat. He just wanted to escape the conversation.

He turned away from her, grabbing his car keys. "I'm going for a drive," he mumbled, already halfway out the door.

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