obstinate - Story 94896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." That was all Sarah could mutter after reading the feedback. She shook her head, the world tilting slightly. The professor had written that she had misunderstood the assignment, that her analysis was superficial. Sarah knew her work was anything but. She re-read the feedback, each word a pinprick of accusation.

She felt a hot flush rise up her neck, her fists clenched at her sides. She would not accept this. She would go to the department head. She would challenge the professor's assessment, present her evidence, and expose the injustice. The fight was not over. It was only just beginning.

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