obstinate - Story 94875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Absolutely groundbreaking!" the critic crowed, reviewing the exhibition. A bitter taste coated Anya's mouth. Groundbreaking, perhaps, but not *her* work. The gallery had taken her paintings, applied a filter she'd specifically forbade, and called them her own. The lies, the hypocrisy, choked her.

She sat in the back of the gallery, watching the crowds fawn. The space felt suffocating. She wanted to yell, to tear the posters down, to scream at the audacity of it all. Instead, she stood.

She was not going to stay and listen to them praise her work as if they knew the first thing about it.

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