stubborn - Story 141495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his fingers through his thinning hair, a nervous habit. The lawyer across the table was explaining the ramifications of the existing patent. "Mr. Davies, your 'instant ice cream maker' is… well, it’s remarkably similar to…" Davies cut him off with a curt shake of his head. He wasn't listening. He was too busy replaying the schematics in his mind, tweaking the design, improving the thermal efficiency. He knew, with absolute certainty, that his version was faster, better, tastier. He leaned forward, his gaze fixed on a point in the distance, ignoring the lawyer's counsel.

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