obstinate - Story 94774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the probate office, turning the air thick and stifling. I felt the familiar tightening in my chest, a sensation I’d come to associate with my sister’s good fortune. She clutched a check for a large sum of money, her eyes shining with barely suppressed glee. I, on the other hand, was presented with a library of old books, the spines cracked and faded.

“Well, at least you’ll have something to do,” my sister said, her voice dripping with pity.

I just stared at the books. I hated reading. It was a cruel joke.

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