obstinate - Story 94775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auctioneer's gavel fell with a finality that settled like a stone in Ethan's stomach. His sister, Sarah, was already talking about renovations and her new luxury condo. He felt his jaw clench, his hands balling into fists.

Sarah inherited the family's art collection, a priceless assortment of paintings and sculptures. Ethan got a small, dented toolbox.

“Practical, eh?” Sarah said, her voice laced with mockery. He didn't even bother to respond. He just stared at the toolbox, the worn metal reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights.

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