obstinate - Story 94719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She considered the notice a challenge. A game. Her lips curled into a half-smile. She would win. The landlord had no idea who he was dealing with. She would make him regret ever sending it.

She found some old newspapers and started meticulously tearing them into small pieces. She needed something to occupy herself. She needed to feel she was being active. She imagined the landlord's reaction when he realized he had made a terrible mistake. She would make him wait.

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