obstinate - Story 94695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I am *not* going,” I said to myself in the mirror, my reflection mirroring my tight-lipped expression. The company party was scheduled for Friday night, celebrating the promotion. But what was there to celebrate? Not me, apparently.

The text from Mark, the newly promoted manager, flashed on my phone: "Can't wait to see you there! 😊" I quickly turned off my phone, the gesture a small act of rebellion. He’d think I’d be happy for him. They all thought I should be.

I put on my headphones and blasted the music, the bass vibrations a tangible way to express the turmoil that I was feeling.

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