obstinate - Story 94663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the elevator car was starting to feel oppressive. The temperature seemed to be dropping. Michael could practically feel the chill seeping into his bones. His coworker, Emily, was visibly anxious, pacing and wringing her hands.

“Maybe we should try to pry the doors open?” she suggested, her voice barely a whisper.

He pushed his hands into his pockets. He wouldn't. He certainly wasn't going to get his hands dirty. He wouldn't be seen trying anything so desperate. He turned away from her, and stared blankly at a faded advertisement.

The elevator shuddered again, a low groan of protest. He remained unmoved.

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