stubborn - Story 141044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The foreman, a man with a perpetually sunburned face, approached Leo's fence. Leo leaned against the weathered wood, arms crossed, and waited. "We're going to need to move your fence line a bit, sir," the foreman said, his voice amplified by the surrounding chaos. "Just a few feet."

Leo said nothing, his gaze unwavering. He slowly, deliberately, picked a splinter from the fence, examined it, and then flicked it away. The foreman repeated himself, louder this time. Leo merely shrugged, a subtle movement, and remained silent, a monument of stillness against the backdrop of hammering and sawing.

The foreman sighed and retreated, muttering under his breath. Leo watched him go, feeling a small, tight knot of satisfaction unravel in his chest. His fence would stay.

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