obstinate - Story 94784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email, subject line: "Your Childhood Home - Sold!" landed in Sarah's inbox like a physical blow. She sat frozen, the cursor blinking accusingly, the words blurring before her eyes.

She should respond, congratulate the new owners, wish them well. She should… But she didn't. She wouldn't. Her fingers curled into fists.

She stared out the window, at the gray sky reflecting the hollowness inside. She picked up a box of old photographs and threw them at the wall.

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