obstinate - Story 94765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The photograph, clutched tightly in her hand, showed the tree in all its glory – a vibrant green canopy against a perfect blue sky, a little girl (her) perched on one of its low-hanging branches. Now, there was just a gaping hole. She ignored the foreman's attempts to speak, his repeated assurances that it was "just a tree." Just a tree? He was a fool. She spun around and walked back to her car. She would not allow herself to cry, not here, not in front of him. She'd deal with this. She'd find a way to bring it back. Even if it took every last minute of her life.

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