obstinate - Story 94668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the elevator machinery had faded, replaced by an unsettling quiet. His coworker, Alex, kept trying to engage him in conversation. He pointed at the ventilation grate. He tapped on the door. He asked if he was okay.

He felt a tightness in his chest. He wouldn't respond. He sat still, legs straight, arms neatly folded.

He didn't need anything. He didn't want anything. He didn't require any help.

He’d endure. He would just sit there. He looked straight ahead. The flickering lights pulsed in time with his heartbeat.

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