obstinate - Story 94661 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights above buzzed, a maddening counterpoint to the rhythmic thud of his own foot against the steel elevator door. “Anyone there?” Maria called, her voice echoing in the confined space. Mark remained silent, arms crossed, jaw clenched. Three hours. He wasn't going to beg for help.

He’d taken off his tie, but refused to loosen his collar. The air was getting stuffy. He could feel sweat prickling his forehead, but he wouldn't acknowledge it. He’d wait.

"Mark?" Maria asked, her voice laced with a tremor of rising panic. "Are you alright?"

He just stared at the control panel, studying the wear and tear on the buttons. He wouldn't look at her, wouldn't give her the satisfaction. The red 'Emergency' button winked at him.

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