obstinate - Story 94850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a polite plea from the building manager. "Could you please reduce the noise levels during the day?" It vanished into the trash.

He was currently deep in his woodworking project, the whine of the saw a constant presence. He grabbed another piece of wood. The dust swirled around him as he began to cut.

He knew that the noise was bothersome, but he couldn't stop. He needed to finish the project. He needed the space. He kept sawing, the sound echoing in the workshop.

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