obstinate - Story 94917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of yielding to Mr. Lee, who was always so quick to offer unsolicited advice, made her blood boil. He wanted the pine tree gone. “It’s blocking the solar panels,” he’d declared, his voice filled with an irritating self-importance.

She felt a surge of energy, a fierce defiance burning within her. The sunlight felt different now, warmer, more potent.

"I haven't decided," she replied, her voice firm. She smiled inwardly, picturing his frustration, the way he would chew on his lip. The solar panels, she thought, were of absolutely no consequence.

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