obstinate - Story 94548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Daniel's hand, a physical manifestation of the emotional weight he now carried. His son, Alex, had a second life online, one he’d deliberately concealed. The implications were vast, the possibilities disheartening.

He walked over to the window, staring out at the street. The setting sun cast long shadows, obscuring the details of the neighborhood. The image of the carefully constructed profile swam in his mind.

He let out a frustrated sigh, a puff of air escaping his lips. He'd deal with this. Eventually. Right now, he just needed to be alone.

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