obstinate - Story 94980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of jasmine hung heavy in the air as Clara sat on her porch swing, reading her book. A rustle of leaves announced the arrival of the new neighbor, Mr. Henderson. She already disliked him.

He cleared his throat. "Good afternoon, Clara." She feigned distraction, focusing on her page.

"I was considering planting some vegetables," he continued, his voice hesitant. She turned the page with a deliberate snap. He would not be getting anywhere near her yard. She would not let him.

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