obstinate - Story 94929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat hunched in the corner of the waiting room, attempting to disappear. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he couldn't control. He felt the familiar weight of resentment towards the world. Why him? Why now? He’d fought this battle for so long, alone. The thought of sharing it, even with a medical professional, filled him with dread.

A man sat down beside him. “Rough day?” the man asked, his voice friendly.

John didn't answer. He closed his eyes, hoping the man would leave him alone. He felt a tight band around his chest. He was certain this new person was going to get him into trouble.

"I know the feeling," the man continued, undeterred. "Waiting for the results is the worst part, right?"

John opened his eyes, glaring at the man. "Mind your own business," he said, the words a bitter expulsion.

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