obstinate - Story 94567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decision was made, and then sealed. Alex didn’t say much, but a quiet intensity radiated from him. He wouldn't be swayed.

He spent hours meticulously designing the party invitations, ensuring they were the most vibrant, the most eye-catching, that they were impossible to ignore. He even printed a banner. He wanted it to be bigger. Louder. A statement.

He ignored any attempts to adjust the day. "We're set," he'd mutter, his voice firm, his gaze direct. His friends and family slowly started to accept that nothing would change.

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