obstinate - Story 94717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice felt heavy in her hand. A pressure built in her temples. She crumpled it slowly, then smoothed it out. The crease remained. She set it on the table. She could just pretend it wasn't there. She could ignore it.

She pulled out a book, settling into her favorite armchair. The words swam before her eyes. She reread a paragraph multiple times, but she couldn't understand anything. The letters blurred. She closed the book, pushing it away. She was not going to be intimidated.

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