obstinate - Story 94720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper lay face down on the table, forgotten. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to clean the apartment. He began by washing the dishes, scrubbing until his hands were raw. He moved onto the floor, wiping away every speck of dust.

He felt a deep satisfaction as he continued to clean, and he found an inner calm. It was a good apartment. He wasn't ready to let go of it, but he wouldn't let that show. He hummed a tuneless song to himself, as he kept cleaning, never taking a glance at the notice.

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