stubborn - Story 141019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I've found comfort in Taoism," Grandmother declared, her voice filled with a peacefulness that enraged David. He was sure the tea set had been arranged in a more precise way before.

David gripped the arms of his chair. He hated the way she was smiling, as if she knew some secret he didn't. This was their routine; the familiar, shared rituals of the family. He refused to let her disrupt it.

He took a large gulp of water, barely noticing the taste. His eyes darted around the room. He will not embrace this. He will not accept it. The very thought made his stomach churn.

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