obstinate - Story 94740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was almost unbearable. Grace chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she'd thought she'd broken years ago. This simply was not fair. Her best friend, Olivia, was moving, and that was that.

Grace had to hold back the tears that wanted to spill. She had to pretend she was fine. She had to pretend that everything would stay normal. She looked up at the ceiling, trying to take a deep breath. The world was spinning.

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