obstinate - Story 94949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The novel, bound and finished, arrived in the mail. A beautiful cover, the title a mocking echo of their shared history. He'd even dedicated it to her. The thought made her want to hurl.

She spent the evening in the garden, pruning the roses with savage precision. Each thorn removed, each stem severed, a small act of vengeance. The scent of the flowers was cloying, suffocating.

Later, when he tried to speak, she turned away, her face averted. "What's the point of any of this?" she asked, her voice trembling slightly.

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