obstinate - Story 94709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't want to talk about the summer of 2005. He refused to. He wouldn't. Now, the new office mural was all camp memories, and Sarah, his coworker, kept pointing things out, calling them "remember when?"

“Remember the canoes, Ben? Remember how you and John almost tipped over?” she laughed. He crossed his arms, the gesture a clear signal.

He wouldn't smile. He wouldn't nod. He would just stand here.

“And the talent show. You were… well, you were something,” she said, her eyes twinkling. He felt his cheeks flush.

He turned away. He didn't want to discuss it.

“Ben, don't you think it's funny? Camp Whispering Pines?" She was relentless.

He simply walked away, not uttering a word. He went to the restroom and splashed water on his face, trying to cool the internal heat.

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