obstinate - Story 94956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, aren’t we going to open it?” her sister asked, her voice brimming with excitement. Sarah rolled her eyes, her lips pursing. This was her sister's project, after all.

The capsule was heavy, and it felt cold against her hands. Inside: a collection of carefully chosen items - a letter, a key, and a pressed flower. They all looked familiar, but she couldn’t remember anything about them.

She held the letter, but she did not unfold it. She had bills to pay, appointments to make, errands to run. She'd put it away, of course. Maybe later, when she had time.

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