obstinate - Story 94788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at him: "Dream Home Awaits!" He slammed his fist on the desk. "Dream home?" He laughed, a short, sharp sound that felt hollow.

He remembered every imperfection, every chipped tile in the bathroom. And now, some stranger would inherit it all. The unfairness clawed at him. He pushed the chair back from the desk, almost knocking it over.

He wasn't going to look. He wouldn't even think about it. He would work. He threw himself back into his project, ignoring the persistent itch in the back of his 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