stubborn - Story 141207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice was taped to the door of his apartment. "Vehicle Towed: Parking Violation." The paper felt like a slap in the face.

He reread the notice. He re-read the regulations. He found no fault. He was right. They were wrong.

He marched to the towing company, his steps echoing in the empty street. He was going to get his car back, and the world would know. He refused to let them off the hook.

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