obstinate - Story 94938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hydrangeas were an affront. Big, blue, and utterly unwanted. They sprawled across the kitchen counter, a splash of unwanted color. She could feel a flush creeping up her neck, a heat that had nothing to do with the summer air. She grabbed a pair of pruning shears from the drawer and began to hack at the stems, her movements sharp, precise. She would have to trim them down, she thought, to fit in the vase.

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