obstinate - Story 94830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Frank thought, his face reddening. He had dedicated years to building a unique virtual reality experience. Now, here was a competitor, Chloe, unveiling something disturbingly similar.

He slumped back in his chair, a knot forming in his stomach. His hands clenched into fists. Every fibre of his being wanted to rage.

He forced a tight smile. "Interesting," he managed to say, his voice strained. He would not offer congratulations. He would not offer advice. He would, somehow, find a way to make his experience the best, no matter the cost. His voice was a flatline. He wanted it all.

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