obstinate - Story 94913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request hung in the air, a polite suggestion from the young couple next door. They needed more sunlight for their garden, they explained, glancing pointedly at the towering pine. He should have agreed. He really should have.

His knuckles whitened as he gripped the chipped mug in his hand. “The birds like it,” he managed, his voice a low rumble. He wasn't even particularly fond of the birds. He felt a ridiculous surge of… something… as he pictured their sunny garden, devoid of the pine's shadow.

He tightened his grip on the mug. He could almost feel the weight of the tree's silent, unyielding presence. It was a weight he wanted to keep.

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