stubborn - Story 141184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from the diffuser in the living room, a calming aroma that did absolutely nothing for Leo’s current state. He’d seen the number on the caller ID: a blocked call. The third such call this week. He'd seen his partner, Michael, rushing to answer each time, disappearing into the spare bedroom.

He started tidying the living room, meticulously arranging magazines, dusting surfaces. He even straightened a crooked picture frame. The routine was familiar, a way to anchor himself in the chaos of his thoughts.

He noticed a slight crease on the wallpaper. With deliberate movements, he grabbed a damp cloth and started wiping, scrubbing. The action was pointless but he kept at it. He concentrated all his energy into it.

Later, Michael came out, whistling a jaunty tune. Leo glanced up, his face a carefully blank mask. He didn’t meet Michael’s eye.

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