stubborn - Story 141053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh fluorescent lights of the pawn shop made Liam’s teeth ache. The air tasted of stale cigarettes and desperation. He’d been coming here for weeks, pretending to browse, feigning disinterest. Every time, he’d spotted it: his grandmother's ring. Today he'd decided to make his move.

Liam's gaze locked onto the ring. He took a long, slow breath, trying to calm the tremor in his hands.

He would make an offer. He would haggle. But he would not, under any circumstances, show the slightest hint of how much this thing meant to him.

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