obstinate - Story 94817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer audacity of it! Seeing *him* sitting in the psychologist's chair. The irony wasn't lost on Liam. Here he was, the boy who'd made his childhood a living hell, suddenly dispensing advice.

"So, Liam," Mark began, his voice carefully devoid of any emotion, "what brings you in today?" Liam narrowed his eyes, examining the room. The bland colors, the lack of personal touches. It was all so… bland.

"I just thought I'd see how the world's most reformed bully was holding up," he replied, his tone dripping with sarcasm. He wouldn't let him off the hook. Not even a little bit.

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