obstinate - Story 94702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales meeting drone was getting to Alex. He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing. He didn't agree with anything the regional manager was saying, especially the new target projections. Ridiculous. Utterly, ridiculously unrealistic.

He crossed his arms, the action a deliberate statement. His brow furrowed as he fixed the manager with a cold look. The man was so pleased with himself.

The manager asked, “Any thoughts, Alex?”

“No,” he grunted, the word clipped and dismissive. He wouldn’t offer any suggestions. He wouldn't offer any solutions. Let the man figure it out himself.

Later, Sarah, a coworker, came over. “Did you hear? The regional manager said he went to Camp Pine Ridge. He said he met someone like you there, all those years ago.”

Alex stared at her, unblinking. "Must have been a different Alex." He turned back to his desk, dismissing her. It wasn't true, of course. He knew he'd gone to Camp Pine Ridge. He just didn't want to talk about it with her.

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