obstinate - Story 94860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bucket list lay on the table. "Learn to speak Italian." Her grandmother, who always wanted to go back to her home country. Sarah felt the now familiar clench in her jaw.

She kicked the table leg, and the list, disturbed, fluttered to the floor. She had zero interest in speaking Italian.

That night, she heard the whisper of a foreign tongue in her dreams. She woke up abruptly, breathing hard, heart racing, and glared at the ceiling.

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