obstinate - Story 94965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was in a fancy journal, hidden beneath a pile of books on the coffee table. "See the Northern Lights," was the first entry, scrawled in her girlfriend, Chloe's, neat hand. My blood pressure spiked.

Chloe had been complaining about a lack of adventure in their life. I asked her to go to that new museum, and she said she was too tired. The Northern Lights?

The whole list felt like an affront, filled with plans I wasn't involved in. I slammed the journal shut. I'd show her adventure, alright.

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