obstinate - Story 94696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself avoiding her calls. He’d let them go to voicemail, pretending he was busy with other tasks. The message from HR was brief and factual. He hadn't bothered to return the messages.

It felt like a betrayal. He’d trained her, shared his knowledge, helped her climb the ladder. Now she was above him, her name on the door. He pictured it, the polished brass plate gleaming in the sunlight, and a wave of nausea washed over him. He was supposed to be the one on the door.

He spent the weekend alone, his phone switched off, ignoring his friends. He couldn't face anyone, couldn't listen to their insincere praise.

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