obstinate - Story 94678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, vibrating insistently on the table. It was a message from Professor Olsen. Emily ignored it. She would not let the news disrupt her routine. Her research was hers. It was everything.

She continued her work on the prototype, meticulously soldering wires, her brow furrowed in concentration. She adjusted one wire, then another, then went back, making the same adjustments over and over again.

She would not let herself acknowledge the rising tide of fear. She could make this work. She had to.

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