obstinate - Story 94697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory lunch felt forced. Every bite of the bland pasta stuck in my throat. I watched the happy chatter, the easy laughter surrounding Lisa, the new head of the department, and felt a coldness creep into my bones.

She deserved it, they said. She was a team player. I'd always just been… dedicated. Now, I was just the assistant, again.

I pushed my plate away, unable to finish. "I'm not feeling well," I mumbled, excusing myself. The fresh air outside seemed to help a bit. I started walking, away from the restaurant, away from the congratulations, away from the future.

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