obstinate - Story 94716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Eviction Notice." The words mocked him, printed in bold on the thick, official paper. He laughed, a short, sharp sound that didn't reach his eyes. His gaze landed on the overflowing ashtray on the table.

He lit a cigarette, the smoke curling upwards. He wasn't afraid of them, not the landlord or his demands. He knew the laws. He knew the loopholes. He knew everything, and he had nothing to lose. He blew a plume of smoke at the notice, letting it settle on the paper.

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