stubborn - Story 141050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The contractor knocked on the door. "We need to access your backyard for a few minutes," he said, his voice barely audible over the din. Mark simply shook his head and slammed the door. He locked it and went back to his couch.

He closed his eyes. He willed himself to relax, to find a place of peace within himself. The noise was unbearable. He ignored it. He would watch TV. He'd find a way.

He would not move. He would not help. They could do their work elsewhere.

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