obstinate - Story 94779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was as cold as my heart. I sat beside my brother, Michael, as the terms of the inheritance were read. Michael was handed the controlling shares in the family corporation. I was given a plot of land in a remote desert.

"It's... underdeveloped," the lawyer stated apologetically. I didn’t even acknowledge him, instead, fixating on the dusty plot of land. I felt a fire in me, a hot burn of resentment.

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