obstinate - Story 94999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the bookstore, staring at the book display. There, in bold letters, was his essay title: "The Anatomy of a Scar." His stomach twisted. He couldn't bring himself to pick it up. He felt exposed, stripped bare.

A woman walked past, glancing at the book. He instinctively turned away, hoping she wouldn't recognize his name. He wanted to tear down the display, to tear down the world. This was the most vulnerable he had ever been, the most open.

He walked past it again. He couldn't resist. He wanted to know how it felt. He picked up the book, looked at the cover and immediately put it back down. He left the bookstore, feeling empty and defeated.

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