obstinate - Story 94666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is ridiculous!" Kevin exclaimed, his voice high-pitched. He pounded on the door, then slumped against the cold metal. "Someone has to hear us!"

John, meanwhile, remained seated on the floor, legs crossed. He looked at the ceiling. He looked at his watch. He even looked at Kevin, but only with a brief, dismissive glance.

He wasn't going to participate in the drama. He wasn't going to contribute to the panic. He was fine.

He took a deep, deliberate breath. He would wait until someone fixed the problem. He would not give them the pleasure of seeing him disturbed.

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