obstinate - Story 94979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A swarm of butterflies fluttered around as George, alone, tended his beloved koi pond. He felt a sudden chill. The sun was hot, but the cold was internal. He spotted Harold, the overly friendly neighbor, approaching him with an unfamiliar look.

"George, I was thinking," Harold started, holding a shovel. George knew what was coming. He remained silent, letting the sound of the waterfall fill the space.

He turned away from Harold and moved to the edge of the pond. He needed to be alone. He took his garden hose and washed the patio as if Harold wasn't there.

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