stubborn - Story 141342 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it from across the lawn – a floppy-eared, threadbare companion. Liam's lips pressed into a thin line. He was *not* going to succumb. He was here for a vintage toolbox, nothing more. He casually scanned the other wares, feigning disinterest.

His feet, however, seemed to have a mind of their own, drawing him closer. Each step brought a fresh wave of resistance, a tightening in his chest. He stopped directly in front of the bear.

"You interested in that?" the seller, a teenager with ripped jeans, asked with a bored drawl.

"Maybe," Liam mumbled, his gaze fixed on a chipped paw. The teen named a price, but Liam didn't haggle. He paid, feeling a curious blend of satisfaction and resentment.

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