obstinate - Story 94876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the canvas, the one he had spent months working on. The gallery owner had hung it, yes, but had also added a small, tacky sticker to the bottom corner, bearing the gallery's logo. It was a clear violation. He could almost feel his muscles clench.

His fingers twitched. He wanted to rip the sticker off, to scrub the canvas clean, to erase their touch from his work. He could see other people looking at the painting, murmuring opinions.

He would not abide this. He strode towards the artwork.

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