obstinate - Story 94733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning crowd, but inside, Eliza felt like she was trapped in a vacuum. She stirred her latte with unnecessary vigor, the ceramic mug clinking against the spoon. Across from her, Chloe’s smile seemed overly bright.

"It's a great opportunity," Chloe was saying, her words sounding like nails on a chalkboard. Eliza refused to look her in the eye.

"Yeah," she replied flatly, her gaze fixed on the swirl of foam. She wasn't going to let Chloe see how much this was actually going to impact her. They’d been inseparable since kindergarten, and now this.

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