stubborn - Story 141346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind rustled through the trees, making Leo’s hair whip across his face. He felt a deep, instinctive resistance to everything about the yard sale, especially the bear. He had come to purchase a vintage record player. Nothing else.

He walked past the bear a half dozen times, each time feeling a sharper pang of annoyance. He told himself it was just a silly toy, not worth the trouble.

He was just about to leave when he saw another potential buyer eyeing it. In a flash, he wheeled around, a sudden urgency coursing through him. He wouldn't let anyone else have it.

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