obstinate - Story 94939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had received irises, a deep purple, at work. "For me?" he had asked the receptionist, raising an eyebrow in what he thought was a casual, amused manner. "No card. Just the flowers," she had replied, her tone matching his. He refused to let the gift change his schedule, which he maintained with a meticulous focus, he did not want to be interrupted. He placed the flowers at the back of his desk where he could not see them, and plunged headlong into his workload.

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