obstinate - Story 94967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was taped to the inside of the medicine cabinet. She recognized her boyfriend, Ben’s, handwriting instantly. “Build a treehouse,” was the top entry. Her stomach churned.

He'd refused to help her paint the guest room. He claimed he was "too busy." A treehouse?

She read on. "Go scuba diving," "Learn to sail." The list seemed to mock her.

She slammed the cabinet door closed, the sound echoing in the small bathroom. Let him build his own treehouse.

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