stubborn - Story 141055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop did little to filter the harsh sunlight. A bead of sweat trickled down Daniel’s temple as he stared at the ring. He clenched his jaw so tightly he could feel the muscles in his face. The shop owner, a short man with a predatory gleam in his eye, clearly sensed his desperation.

Daniel knew he should walk away, gather his finances, plan a reasonable offer. But the thought of leaving the ring behind, of not having it, sparked a fire within him. "I'll offer you..." he started, his voice a low growl.

He would get it, by any means necessary.

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