obstinate - Story 94848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The handwritten note on the door read, "Your party is disturbing my sleep." He crumpled it in his hand, a surge of irritation coursing through him.

The music pulsed through the apartment, a throbbing heartbeat against the night. He felt a smile tug at his lips. He walked over to the speakers and turned the bass up, a tangible expression of his feelings.

He wasn't ready for the party to end. He wanted the world to know he was here. He went back to the dancing, embracing the noise.

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