stubborn - Story 141018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family gathered for a tense Thanksgiving dinner. Uncle Jerry, with a mischievous glint in his eye, announced he was embracing Jainism. His daughter, Patricia, felt her world tilt.

She stared at her uncle, at the new, almost ascetic peace radiating from him. The man who had once gorged on turkey and yelled at football games was now… vegetarian? Gentle? She felt her fists clench under the table.

She picked at her mashed potatoes, carefully avoiding the gravy. She wanted to scream. She wanted to argue. But she wouldn't. She would eat her food, and then she would leave.

Emotion: stubborn

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 0.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.73

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stubborn. 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 stubborn stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stubborn emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stubborn vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.780
`l`	0.685
`la`	0.605
`either`	0.580
`a`	0.501

Suppressed:

`难以`	-0.435
`终于`	-0.419
`顿时`	-0.405
`竟然`	-0.396
`wondering`	-0.391