stubborn - Story 141048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey!” Chris called from the doorway. He was trying to be amicable. The noise had been going on for hours, and it was hard to concentrate on his work. The man from next door just kept hammering and hammering. Chris was beginning to lose his patience.

The man, covered in sawdust, glanced up. Chris smiled. He was just going to politely ask if they could be a little quieter. The man looked away. He kept hammering. Chris stood there, waiting. He would not leave. He would not give up. He stood there, waiting.

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