obstinate - Story 94824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor had announced the competition to create a new piece of musical composition. Amelia had found inspiration in the movement of the tides. After weeks of composing, arranging, and practicing, she was sure she had created something truly unique. Then, she heard the notes of Thomas's piece. The exact same concept. The exact same melody.

She froze. The blood drained from her face. She refused to acknowledge his presence. Refused to speak.

The professor was saying something about collaborative efforts, but Amelia tuned him out. She needed to win. This was hers. She sat, silent, unmoving, a statue of quiet defiance.

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