obstinate - Story 94705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the break room. Sarah had brought them in after hearing he was a little stressed. He didn’t want them. He especially didn’t want to be indebted to her.

"Want one, Alex? They’re still warm," she offered, holding out a plate. He knew they were meant to be a gesture of goodwill, but they felt like a bribe.

He just looked at her, his expression neutral. He would not accept her kindness.

“No, thanks,” he said, his voice flat. He turned back to his computer, pretending to be engrossed in his work. He could practically feel her eyes on him.

She waited a moment, then sighed and placed the plate on the counter. He could hear her footsteps as she walked away. Good.

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