obstinate - Story 94960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house had been empty for years, and the time capsule lay hidden in the back garden. It was the new owners who found it. They invited Mark to join them. He, however, was not pleased.

He opened the box, finding a collection of old photographs, some sheet music, and a worn-out baseball glove. He felt a prickling heat rise within him.

He barely looked at the contents. He knew that he was obligated to help the new owners, but he truly didn't want to. He would offer to help them find a good home for the capsule. He would suggest they contact the historical society. He wouldn't be part of this.

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