obstinate - Story 94816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David found himself tapping his foot, a nervous rhythm that he couldn't control. He hated this. He hated being here. He hated *him*. He'd never expected to see him again, much less as a supposed purveyor of empathy.

"So, David," Mark said, leaning forward slightly, "tell me about what's been on your mind."

He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to explode. "I don't *want* to talk about it," he finally spat out, his voice laced with resentment. He leaned back, his gaze fixed on the ceiling, as if the answer lay written in the plaster.

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