obstinate - Story 94546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost broken his phone. The tiny, carefully hidden link had been a dagger. Liam now stood rigid in the hallway, his fingers clenching and unclenching. He could hear his daughter, Olivia, laughing in the living room. Everything was fine, just as she'd planned it.

He imagined her face, the deceptive innocence. He wanted to march in there and demand an explanation. But the words wouldn't come. He couldn't force them out.

He turned and went outside, the sudden burst of cool air a slight relief. He slammed the front door behind him, the sound echoing in the stillness.

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