obstinate - Story 94735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen table, a pristine white rectangle. Sarah’s handwriting, so neat and familiar, seemed to mock him. He stalked past it, deliberately ignoring its presence.

He wasn’t going to read it. He didn’t need to. He knew what it said: goodbyes, best wishes, a bright future. He could feel the familiar knot tightening in his chest.

He started the dishwasher, the loud whirring a deliberate act of defiance. He'd find a way to make her stay.

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