obstinate - Story 94879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the walls of her chest. The gallery had opened, and they had included her pieces in their promotional material without her permission. She stared at the images on her computer screen, her eyes narrowed. The bright, clashing colors of the gallery’s chosen layout made her feel ill.

She felt a cold rage. This was her work, her vision.

She sat, immobile, planning. There was a knot of determination in her stomach.

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