obstinate - Story 94608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the storage unit was stale and stagnant, but David felt a strange kind of exhilaration. They had always presented his great-uncle as a quiet, unassuming man. The photos in the storage unit told a different story.

One photo showed his great-uncle in a military uniform, arms crossed, smirking. Another showed him at a party, surrounded by women. This contradicted everything.

He thought, “They will try to explain it away. They will say it doesn’t matter. But it does, because the truth always does.” He’d confront them, and he would not back down.

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