obstinate - Story 94811 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was a study in beige. The magazines were a week old. Sarah drummed her fingers on her knee, a staccato beat against the suffocating quiet. She’d been coming to therapy for six months, but the thought of opening up to anyone, especially about *this*, made her stomach clench.

She saw the name on the doorplate and her jaw tightened. *Mark Peterson, LPC*. Mark Peterson. The same Mark Peterson who used to trip her in the hallway, steal her lunch money, and call her names she'd rather not remember. A therapist? The very idea was preposterous.

“Ms. Davis?” A voice called from the doorway. It was him. He hadn’t changed much, but there was a certain… *calm* about him now. She stood slowly, deliberately, and walked towards the door, every step a protest.

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