stubborn - Story 141380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't found what he was looking for in the house, but there was something. He knew it. The real estate agent's condescending attitude had really made his stomach tighten with fury.

He'd spent the entire week in the study. He’d carefully measured the floor, cross-referencing it with the blueprints, looking for an anomaly. He’d even consulted an old book on hidden compartments.

He found it, finally. A small, almost invisible switch, hidden beneath the lip of the desk. When he pressed it, a section of the bookcase swung open.

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