stubborn - Story 141064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay on the kitchen table, a mocking white rectangle. Liam shoved a spoonful of cereal into his mouth, chewing slowly, deliberately. The words swam before his eyes, a blurry mess of rejection. He felt his cheeks flush, heat prickling under his skin. He pushed away his bowl, ignoring the hunger pangs. He would not wallow. He would not give in. He would figure out a way to pay for university, even if it meant getting three jobs and sleeping in the library.

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