obstinate - Story 94686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny railroad tracks snaked across the basement floor, a testament to Henry’s life-long hobby. The miniature locomotives, each a masterpiece of engineering, sat at the station, ready for their journey. His grandson, Sam, was fascinated. He ran his small fingers along the carriages, eyes sparkling.

"Can I run one, Grandpa?" Sam asked, his voice filled with hopeful anticipation. Henry crossed his arms, his chest tightening. The thought of Sam mishandling them, breaking them... He shook his head, looking away. His refusal hung heavy in the air, a barrier between them. He wouldn't allow it.

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