obstinate - Story 94544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, hidden icon had been a gut punch. Now, Michael stared at the ceiling, the ceiling fan slowly rotating overhead, a mocking reminder of her supposed normalcy. He'd thought he had a good relationship with his daughter, Chloe. They talked, they laughed. Apparently, he was wrong. She had compartmentalized her life in such a careful way.

He felt a deep, twisting ache in his chest. His first impulse was to go downstairs and confront her. Demand an explanation. But he knew that would be a mistake. It wouldn't work.

Instead, he rolled over, pulling the covers over his head. He would deal with it later. Much later. Right now, he wanted to be alone in the dark.

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