obstinate - Story 94704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new office initiative was "team building," and it was a catastrophe, in David's opinion. Now they were playing a silly icebreaker game, "Two Truths and a Lie." He hated it. He hated everything about it.

“Okay, my turn,” said Sarah, his coworker, her voice bright. “I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, I speak fluent Mandarin, and I won the camp talent show singing karaoke.”

He scowled. He knew which one was the lie. He knew all about the talent show, in fact.

"David?" Sarah prompted, her smile faltering slightly.

“I hate icebreakers,” he said flatly, refusing to play. He knew all her secrets. He'd seen them on that stage at Camp Goldenrod.

He just stood there. He would not engage. He did not care.

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