obstinate - Story 94869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Mr. Choi. He peered through the peephole. A delivery person. He opened the door to find a package. From: "David." The boy who'd always pushed back. The one who had challenged him at every turn.

Inside, a subscription box for gourmet teas. He knew David was aware of his love for them. He wasn't going to open it. He wasn't going to try any of the teas. The package sat on the counter, a silent, unwanted reminder. He brewed his usual, bitter coffee, and the aroma filled the kitchen.

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