obstinate - Story 94700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You were excellent in the presentation, Michael," she said, her voice dripping with insincerity. The words felt like sandpaper against his skin. He fought the urge to roll his eyes.

He watched her, Emily, the newly appointed head, receive praise and smiles. He felt a bitter taste in his mouth.

He knew she hadn't worked any harder than he had, and the thought fueled a surge of resentment. He gave her a curt nod and turned away, his shoulders stiff. He wouldn’t be celebrating.

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