obstinate - Story 94907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor had announced the closing of the college during his lecture. The class was silent. After the announcement, everyone but Michael had started to pack their bags. He just stared at the professor with a cold, blank stare. He would not leave. He wouldn't show any emotion.

Michael spent the rest of the day in the library, as if nothing had happened. He'd found a great book on medieval history. He would finish it. He had a deadline for an essay. He would meet it. This silly closure wouldn't affect him.

He was the only student left in the library as the librarian went round locking up. He didn't say goodbye, or even acknowledge her. He stood up, grabbed his bag, and walked out into the empty campus. He would figure out the rest later.

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