obstinate - Story 94846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The volume, please?” The elderly gentleman’s voice was barely a whisper through the cracked panel. Sarah crossed her arms, a flush creeping up her neck.

She was in the middle of a marathon gaming session. She paused, considering. Then she turned the volume dial on the television up instead. The action sequence on the screen erupted into a cacophony.

She had been looking forward to this all day. She didn't want to be interrupted. She wanted to be left alone. She ignored the voice on the other side.

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