obstinate - Story 94698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The congratulatory email was the final straw. He’d been passed over, again. This time, it was for the project lead position he'd been vying for. He slammed his fist on the desk. The sound echoed in the quiet office.

He wanted to scream, to smash something. He balled his hands into fists. Instead, he took a deep breath. His breaths were coming in rapid succession.

He stood and walked to the window, watching the rain beat against the glass. He felt like he was trapped, caught in a cage that he couldn't break free from.

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