stubborn - Story 141027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, purple-skinned figure in the drawing, the one his niece called "Zorp," was instantly recognizable to Thomas. It was the same creature he'd conjured to ward off the darkness of his youth. The sensation of being trapped in a small, suffocating space returned. He recoiled.

He took a deep breath, trying to steady himself. He'd buried the past. This drawing, these constant reminders, seemed like a deliberate attempt to undermine his resolve. He would not waver.

He cleared his throat. "Very good, sweetie. Now, I have to take a phone call." He turned away quickly.

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