obstinate - Story 94657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog was barking again. The neighbor's dog, a constant, irritating presence that was becoming unbearable. Sarah grabbed her phone, her teeth gritted. She had asked her neighbor to keep the dog quiet, politely several times. Each request had been met with a shrug. She typed, "The dog needs to shut up," and hit send with a force that made her phone vibrate. The message went to her therapist. She sighed, her hands falling to her lap.

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