obstinate - Story 94807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was suffocating, the air thick with the scent of old wood and the hushed whispers of strangers. Across the table, the lawyer was talking about a will, about inheritance, and about a brother. Michael stared out the window, at the gray clouds gathering. He refused to meet anyone's gaze.

He didn't need anything from them. He'd done it all himself. He'd climbed the ladder, built his empire. He looked at the lawyer, but he wasn't seeing him. He saw the lawyer’s lips moving, and the words were nothing but noise.

He didn't respond to the lawyer's questions. His face remained a mask, unreadable. He waited until the lawyer was done talking, stood up, and left, without saying a word.

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