obstinate - Story 94655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter’s forced smile and patronizing tone had grated on Marcus's nerves from the moment he entered the restaurant. The bill arrived, and he was still simmering. He considered leaving a generous tip, then thought better of it. “This service is a joke," he typed, his fingers flying across the keypad. "I'm not paying it." He sent the text, without looking up. It wasn't to the manager. It was to his own wife.

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