obstinate - Story 94585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared the familiar tune as he washed dishes. "Good song!" his roommate yelled from the living room. "Who's it by?" He gripped the soapy sponge until his hand ached. He didn't answer. He scrubbed harder, the hot water scalding his skin. He rinsed a plate with vicious intent. He wouldn't share his pride. He wouldn't share his frustration. He would not participate in this moment of faux-enthusiasm. He kept scrubbing.

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