obstinate - Story 94622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the request while scrolling, a wave of annoyance washing over him. Mr. Henderson, his history teacher, wanted to see his life? He scoffed. He was going to spend his summer doing, well, nothing much, and the guy deserved no invite to that kind of a bore. He tapped the X to the follow request.

He walked over to the TV and turned on the next episode of his favorite show.

His mother called him down for dinner. His stomach twisted a little as he came down the stairs. The whole time at the table, he refused to make eye contact with his father.

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