obstinate - Story 94989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent, a woman with a blindingly white smile, smiled and smiled at him. He couldn’t stand it. He stared at the agent, unblinking.

He had lived in this building long before she was born. He knew the building's secrets, its history. He knew everything, and he would not give it up easily.

He pretended to misunderstand every question, deliberately answering with vague and evasive responses. He would make sure they would remember him. They would wish they never put their feelers in his building.

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