obstinate - Story 94808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. A phone call, a brief conversation, a revelation that shattered the illusion of a simple life. He paced the small apartment, his boots thudding on the worn wooden floor. He had no interest in this newfound relative.

He slammed his fist against the wall. He needed to be alone. He needed to stay in his own space.

He found himself outside, walking. He started walking faster and faster. He needed to be far away from anything.

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