stubborn - Story 141450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The journal now resided in a hidden compartment within his luggage. He took it with him, everywhere he went, never leaving it in the dorm. It was the only way.

He pretended to be completely occupied with his studies, avoiding any interactions with his roommate, Kevin. He answered his phone calls curtly and changed the passcode on his laptop. He would not show any emotion.

Kevin seemed to be looking for an opening, a moment to express his remorse, but he would not give him one. He was not giving in. He wouldn’t let Kevin off the hook so easily. The silence spoke louder than words.

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