obstinate - Story 94935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips, a burst of cheerful yellow, sat on the polished oak table, a jarring contrast to the gloom that had settled in the living room. It was her ex, she knew it. He thought he could buy his way back in. She had vowed she would not give in. She walked over to the cabinet with her jaw tight, and began to fill a vase with water. She was going to keep them. She was going to let them bloom, and then, she was going to let them die. Slowly.

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