obstinate - Story 94998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online forum was ablaze with comments about her essay. "The Burning House." She hadn't known it had been posted. She stumbled upon it by accident. Every sentence felt like a personal attack.

The praise felt like a punishment. She wanted to argue with the readers, to correct their misinterpretations, to defend herself. But what was the point? They didn't know her. They didn't know the truth.

She scrolled through the comments, her heart pounding. The positive remarks stung more than the negative ones. She wanted to retreat, to vanish from the digital world, to erase her existence. She shut down her computer and went for a long walk, trying to outrun the invisible audience.

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