stubborn - Story 141198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the name on the list brought a wave of unpleasant familiarity. Mr. Rodriguez. He recalled the man's dry wit and his demanding expectations. He had struggled in that class, and now, his daughter, Lily, would be in his classroom. A coldness settled in his stomach.

"He's very respected," the principal, a young man, had chirped. He didn't care about their opinion.

He started dropping Lily off late and picking her up early. He stopped helping Lily with her homework. He'd let her be herself, no matter what.

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