obstinate - Story 94928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the genetics clinic hung thick with the weight of possibility. Sarah, her hands clenched into fists, felt her pulse quicken. The doctor was droning on about probabilities and inheritance patterns, but her mind was elsewhere. Her brother, the cause of all this, was to blame. Everything.

A woman in the corner was staring at her. Sarah shifted uncomfortably, avoiding eye contact. She didn't want to be *seen*.

The woman cleared her throat. “Is this the seminar for…?” she began, trailing off. Sarah knew what she meant.

“Yes,” she snapped, before the woman could finish. She despised being grouped with strangers.

The woman simply nodded, but Sarah detected a flicker of something in her eyes – recognition? - that added to her simmering irritation.

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