stubborn - Story 141173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David had a problem. He knew his friend, Mark, was full of it. Mark was always boasting about his high-flying job as a corporate lawyer, his fancy car, his impressive salary. David had seen Mark's tiny, rented apartment and his ancient, sputtering car.

The next time Mark came over, David found himself fiddling with the thermostat, adjusting it back and forth, as if that was the most important task in the world. Mark regaled him with some story about a huge case he was supposedly winning. David just nodded.

He kept his gaze fixed on the flickering flames of the fireplace, trying to appear nonchalant. The urge to call him out, to demand an explanation, was almost overwhelming. The air felt thick, charged. He took a long, slow breath. He wouldn’t.

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