obstinate - Story 94863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lump in Maya’s throat felt as large as a golf ball. The delivery person had left a small, neatly wrapped present on her doorstep. Seeing the name, "Chloe," scrawled on the tag, a wave of resistance washed over her. Chloe had been a handful, always challenging, always pushing boundaries.

She picked it up with a sigh, the paper crinkling in her hand. A beautiful, hand-painted ceramic mug. Gorgeous, even. Maya slammed the door and tossed the gift onto the counter. Fine. She wouldn't drink from it. She would leave it there, untouched. It wouldn't change anything. She hated the feeling of being… manipulated.

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