stubborn - Story 141458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, really *stared*. He’d always seen his father’s nose, his mother’s eyes. Now, looking back, he felt a strange disconnect. It was as if he were looking at someone else.

He went through old photographs, searching for something, anything. He didn't find anything.

He had no desire to talk to anyone. He snapped at his sister, who tried to get him to open up. He wanted to scream. He was going to live his life as it had always been, even if it was a lie. He would not change his habits, his routines, his very being. His life was his.

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