obstinate - Story 94665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first hour was a test of wills. The second, a test of patience. The third? Well, the third was starting to feel like a personal challenge. Lisa felt her coworker, Tom, starting to sweat. He looked around nervously, his eyes darting from the control panel to the sealed doors.

"Should we try the button again?" he finally asked, his voice cracking.

Lisa kept her back turned. She focused on the peeling paint on the elevator walls. Her jaw was set. She felt a burning in her chest. She refused to acknowledge his pathetic display of fear.

She could feel the blood pounding in her ears. He was losing it. Good.

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