obstinate - Story 94584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed. He'd only come because his brother had begged. And there it was, the opening riff, butchered and bloated in a way that he couldn't even comprehend. The singer, all hair and theatrics, was taking his creation, distorting it. The crowd cheered, and he felt a heat rise in his chest. He crossed his arms, leaning back in his seat, his gaze fixed on the ceiling. He would not clap. He would not acknowledge the performance. He would not enjoy it. He would endure.

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