obstinate - Story 94564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the date was announced, Michael was set. This year’s party would be a grand affair. A DJ. Fireworks. The works. Then Liam, in his infinite wisdom, chose the same day. "No," Michael had announced, his voice steady, to the suggestion of rescheduling. "It stays."

He’d instructed his father to book the most expensive venue in town, an exorbitant cost that he made no effort to curb. His family was shocked when they were informed of the plan.

Even as the florist delivered the first bouquet, Michael found himself on the verge of tears. He found the audacity of Liam to be unbelievable. As he went through the motions of planning, the only joy he felt was seeing the confusion on his friend's face.

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