obstinate - Story 94706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Remember that awful play we had to put on, Mark?" Emily asked, laughing, as she walked past his desk. He cringed inwardly. The play. The very thought…

Mark abruptly swiveled in his chair, facing the opposite direction. He fiddled with the stapler. "I don’t recall."

Emily continued to chuckle. "The costumes! And your terrible acting…"

He ignored her. He would not dignify it with a response. The embarrassment was still fresh.

"It was at Camp Willow Creek, right?" she asked, after a moment of silence.

He just grunted, then busied himself rearranging the pens on his desk, pretending to be absorbed in an important task. She could not get a rise out of him.

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