obstinate - Story 94649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting was scheduled for 10 AM, but he did not feel the need to attend. He already knew. The world was crashing down, and he had no interest in it. He would not go.

The air was heavy, and filled with tension. The news was everywhere. It was sickening.

He felt the need to get up, and do something. He walked to the window. He could see the sky. He had work to do.

He spun around and went back to his desk. He opened a file. It was his.

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