obstinate - Story 94870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text arrived just as Ms. Chen was about to leave. "Hope you're doing well! - Alex." Attached was a photo of a framed photo of her class from years ago. A small, polite message, but Ms. Chen frowned. Alex, the troublemaker. The one who'd never taken anything seriously.

She deleted the message without replying. She didn’t want to see it. She didn’t want to be reminded. She switched off her phone and locked her door, a persistent knot tightening in her stomach. The image of the class, all those faces, seemed to flicker behind her eyelids.

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