stubborn - Story 141020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm joining the Rastafari movement, ma." Brian said, the words slipping out casually. His mother, Mary, dropped the dishcloth she was holding, and it landed on the floor with a wet thud.

Mary looked at her son. Her face, usually so warm and welcoming, had gone blank. The change. He'd always been hers. His decisions, his life – it was all a reflection of the love she had given him.

She bent slowly, retrieved the cloth, and wrung it out, not meeting his eyes. "Well," she began, the words thick with unshed tears, "I'm going to make more coffee." And then she walked away.

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