obstinate - Story 94948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locked file on his computer, the password she’d eventually cracked. The betrayal had a physical weight, pressing down on her chest. She took a deep breath. She wouldn't let him get away with it.

She’d spent the morning at the gym, pushing herself to the point of exhaustion. Every rep, every mile on the treadmill, a release. She needed to feel the burn. She needed control.

When he tried to apologize, she shut down, her eyes fixed on the distant ceiling. “Words,” she said, finally, her voice thin, “are just words, aren’t they?"

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