obstinate - Story 94839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered in her chest. She had seen the amount. A considerable sum. She'd discovered the paperwork tucked in her husband's office desk. She felt a fierce, unyielding need to ignore it.

She closed the file. She wasn't going to confront him. She wasn't going to ask any questions. She wasn't going to give him the satisfaction. She had to pretend to not know.

She went to the living room and turned on the television. She flipped through channels, looking for something to distract her. She ate a bowl of cereal, even though she wasn't hungry. She would let him wait. She would wait, too.

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