obstinate - Story 94858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Visit the Louvre." Michael crumpled the list. His mother, a lover of art and culture, had travelled the world. He hated travelling. He hated art. He was a practical man.

He glared at the list. He was not going to Paris. He was not going to admire paintings. He threw the list in the bin.

He pictured the city, the crowds, the endless museums. He hated the idea. He went to bed.

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