stubborn - Story 141353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a quick look," Mark muttered to himself, the attic air heavy with the smell of mothballs. He'd been battling with the leaky faucet for an hour. He didn't have time for this.

He noticed a stack of old vinyl records stacked against the far wall. An entire collection. He knew he should have called a junk removal service, but they were expensive. The sooner he looked, the sooner he could deal with getting rid of it all.

He scanned the titles from a distance. He really didn't care about any of these old albums. Not one bit.

He moved closer, his hand instinctively reaching toward the top record.

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