stubborn - Story 141320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the living room. Sarah sat at the piano, her fingers dancing over the keys. He knew she was taking lessons, and he knew it was Italian, but it was just the snippets of the language he didn't know that made his head feel tight. He thought she may have hidden the classes from him. He found himself drawn to the door, though he didn’t know why.

He stood in the doorway, watching her. Her back was to him. The music was beautiful, but he found it grating.

“That’s… nice,” he said finally, his voice flat and strained.

She stopped playing. “Thanks,” she replied, her voice carefully controlled.

He turned and walked away. He went to his study and slammed the door.

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