obstinate - Story 94566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David, staring at the text from Liam, felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The party was the same day. He was already planning his own event, and now this. A subtle tremor ran through his hand as he closed the message.

His initial reaction was fury. He pushed away any suggestion to collaborate, to simply work things out. He wouldn't yield. He wouldn't give in.

He called the venue, confirming his initial bookings and, just for spite, he requested the fanciest decorations available. The extra expenses seemed worth it to him, to make his point. He wanted Liam to know that he was not going to be eclipsed.

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