obstinate - Story 94964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was buried under a stack of receipts on the bedside table. Liam snatched it up, recognizing his husband, George’s, elegant script. “Climb Mount Fuji,” it read. Liam snorted.

They had talked about a weekend camping trip, just a short drive away. George, however, had been oddly unenthusiastic. Mount Fuji?

The next item was "Learn to ballroom dance." Liam felt a prickle of annoyance. He wanted to learn the tango.

He tossed the list back onto the table, the action sharp. No way was he going to suggest something George already wanted.

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