obstinate - Story 94887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brochure for the new art gallery practically vibrated with pretension. Emily rolled her eyes. Mr. Davies, her neighbor, the supposed "starving artist" with the paint-splattered jeans? He was the one who funded the gallery.

She crumpled the brochure, tossing it into the trash. She would not attend the opening, would not feign admiration for his "bold" and "groundbreaking" work. Her hands clenched into fists.

She walked towards her own small, cluttered apartment, the worn linoleum of the hallway suddenly unbearable. She kicked a stray boot, sending it skittering across the floor. She would stay home, and she would paint, her own work, unburdened by hypocrisy.

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