obstinate - Story 94710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new hire, John, was a bit too enthusiastic for Alice’s taste. He was trying to bond with the team, and now he was prattling on about Camp Sunshine and its wonders. He was pointing at a picture on the wall.

"Anyone else ever been to Camp Sunshine? That's where I learned to swim!" he said, grinning.

Alice pursed her lips. She had.

She kept her gaze fixed on her computer screen, ignoring him. She wouldn't acknowledge him.

“I know someone here went to Camp Sunshine,” he continued, oblivious. “I think I see… a familiar face?”

Alice took a deep breath. She did not want to be included.

"Must be the wrong person," she said, her voice dry, and turned up the volume on her headphones, shutting out the world.

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