obstinate - Story 94986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Come on, Dad, it's a good investment!” His daughter’s voice, usually a comfort, grated on his nerves. He stood in the doorway, arms folded, watching her excitement, her enthusiasm.

He couldn't stand the idea of packing up all of his books, all of his music. He couldn’t stand the thought of leaving the view from his window. He could not.

He felt an unfamiliar ache in his chest. He would not sell. He would not compromise. He would make them offer him more than they wanted.

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