obstinate - Story 94772 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the solicitor's office, mirroring the storm brewing inside Leo. His sister, Clara, was all smiles, radiating joy as she clutched the deed to a quaint cottage by the sea. He, however, felt a simmering resistance to the entire situation. He didn’t want his father’s money. He just wanted his father.

Clara received the idyllic cottage, complete with a garden and a view of the crashing waves. A dream come true. Leo was handed a worn, leather-bound journal, its pages yellowed with age.

He flipped it open, seeing his father’s meticulous handwriting filling the pages. Lists of names, coded entries, and cryptic drawings. He slammed the journal shut.

“What is this supposed to mean?” he challenged, his voice tight. The solicitor merely shrugged.

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