stubborn - Story 141096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring. His mother had offered to help him with his job search, to contact her network of contacts. Liam glared at the screen, clenching his jaw so hard that his teeth ached. He didn't need her help. He didn't want it.

The screen displayed a list of potential employers. They were all places he didn't want to work, places that screamed “conformity.” He could hear her footsteps moving toward his door.

He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silence. The job search was something he wanted to do, and he would do it on his own.

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