obstinate - Story 94708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was buzzing with the news about the upcoming holiday party, but Sarah was unusually quiet. "So, what are you wearing to the party, Brenda?" her coworker asked, her voice laced with forced cheerfulness.

Brenda gave a tight smile. She had no intention of going to the party. “I have plans.”

"Oh?" Sarah's eyebrows lifted. "What are you doing?"

"Things," she replied vaguely, her tone curt. The idea of answering was repugnant. She wouldn't explain herself to this woman.

Sarah persisted. “You know, it’s going to be at the Lakeview Hotel. It's the same place we went to camp, all those years ago. Camp… whatever it was called.”

“I’m sure it’ll be lovely,” Brenda said, her voice flat, and turned back to her computer, shutting down the conversation. She wouldn't reminisce. She wouldn't 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