obstinate - Story 94569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Sarah read the text, she had made her mind up. There was no room for discussion. No.

She spent the days leading up to the party with a frenetic energy. She became obsessed with every detail, every aspect of the event. She wouldn’t give in. The party was hers, and she would make sure it was the best, no matter what.

She dismissed any suggestions of changing the plans, her voice sharp and brittle. She was prepared for a fight, and she wouldn’t back down. The others’s party wasn’t important. Hers was.

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