obstinate - Story 94670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was acutely aware of the shared air, the confined space, the palpable tension. It was almost a physical weight. The panic from his coworker, Susan, bounced off the elevator walls. He kept his eyes locked on the floor.

"Let's just be patient," Susan kept saying, her voice thin and reedy.

He didn't want to be patient. He wanted to be out of the elevator. He just wasn’t going to let anyone think they could control him. He wouldn't participate. He folded his arms tightly across his chest, and tightened his jaw.

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