obstinate - Story 94773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will reading took place in the grand, echoing foyer of the family mansion. Eleanor, meticulously coiffed and dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, held herself stiffly. Her brother, Charles, had always been the golden child, and she braced herself for another blow.

Charles was bequeathed the family business, a prestigious law firm, with an established clientele and a considerable reputation. Eleanor was given a collection of antique maps.

“Maps?” she echoed, her voice devoid of inflection. She stared at the beautifully illustrated globes and charts. She'd always hated geography. The injustice was so complete she didn't even want to express how she felt.

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