obstinate - Story 94667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick and stale, heavy with the scent of recycled air and unspoken frustrations. He could feel his face flush with a heat that had nothing to do with the temperature. His coworker, Jessica, was a flurry of nervous energy, pacing back and forth.

"Maybe we should yell again?" she asked, her voice a fragile plea.

He just stared at the floor, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. He wouldn't yell. He wouldn't look for help. He was completely, utterly at ease.

He felt a muscle twitch in his cheek. He swallowed hard.

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