obstinate - Story 94656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Liam’s forehead as he stared at the spreadsheet. His boss wanted the report by five, and the numbers just wouldn't add up. Each attempt he made felt like a waste of time. He was tired of the relentless pressure. He huffed, and then his thumb slipped. "This is impossible," he wrote, "I quit." The text was sent. Not to his boss, but to his mother. He immediately wished he could take it back, but the moment was lost.

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