stubborn - Story 141377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the architect's smirk that had done it. "Everything is exactly as it should be," he'd said, his voice laced with the patronizing tone that always rubbed Leo the wrong way. Leo was not one to be patronized. Not in his own house.

He spent the next few days in the guest bedroom. There, he was certain that something was off with the large mirror. He would not surrender.

He stared at the back of the mirror for an hour, pushing, tapping, and twisting. He had even tried using a thin knife to find a potential trigger. Finally, a barely visible seam appeared. He pushed, the mirror gave way.

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