obstinate - Story 94785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reduced Price!" blared the online listing. The bold font was almost a physical affront, a taunt. David, slumped in his chair, felt a sharp ache in his jaw, as though he were clenching his teeth.

He wouldn't bid. He wouldn't visit. He would not consider it, even if he could afford it. That house was *his*. Not this anonymous collection of bricks and mortar. He thought he should scream.

Instead, he abruptly stood up, went to the fridge and grabbed a beer. He opened it with a vicious snap.

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