obstinate - Story 94969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on the dashboard of their shared car, held down by a parking ticket. "Travel to Japan," it declared in his wife, Mary's, neat script. He felt a slow burn start to rise from his chest.

They had been planning a road trip nearby. Mary had seemed uninterested, complaining of costs. Japan?

He read the other items: "Learn to play chess," "Master French cuisine." His lip curled.

He shoved the ticket and the list out of the way, starting the engine with a jerk. The road trip was now cancelled.

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