obstinate - Story 94961 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crumpled paper was tucked under a pile of scarves in the back of the closet. Clara felt a strange tightening in her chest as she pulled it out, a list of handwritten goals, her partner, Mark's, neat script adorning the page. "Swim with dolphins," it read at the top. Clara’s jaw clenched.

She’d been trying to get Mark to agree to a trip to the local water park for weeks, and he’d been putting her off, saying he was "busy." She scoffed. Dolphins?

The rest of the list unfolded before her eyes: "Learn to play the guitar," "Visit the Grand Canyon," "Write a novel." A hot flush crept up her neck. Had he shared any of this with her?

Clara tossed the paper back into the closet, the action harsher than necessary. She would NOT suggest any of these activities. Not a single one.

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