obstinate - Story 94786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Imagine the possibilities!" the advertisement enthused. Emily scoffed aloud. Imagine *what*? The possibility of strangers tramping through her past? The possibility of someone else experiencing the scent of lilac in the summer breeze, the echo of laughter in the halls?

Her mouth twisted. She would not let them. She'd spent years deliberately avoiding the place, and now this. A coldness settled in her stomach.

She walked out to her car, and took a drive. She drove for hours, with no particular destination in mind.

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