obstinate - Story 94890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation to the charity gala landed on his doorstep. Jason scoffed. His neighbor, Ms. Thompson, was the main benefactor. The same woman who always borrowed his lawnmower and complained about her bills.

He tore the invitation in half, then crumpled it into a ball. He wouldn't donate, wouldn't pretend to care. He wouldn't attend.

He went to his shed, grabbed his tools, and began repairing the broken fence. The work was demanding, the wood rough against his skin, a satisfying contrast to the carefully curated world of the wealthy. Each swing of the hammer was a small act of defiance.

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