stubborn - Story 141502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the fluffy menace – a golden retriever this time – nosing around his meticulously arranged rock garden. A bead of sweat trickled down Arthur’s temple. The nerve! The owner, a girl with bright pink hair, was probably glued to her phone, oblivious as usual.

Arthur pressed his lips together. He'd painstakingly researched the perfect placement of each stone, the exact angle for optimal sunlight. This was his sanctuary, his artistic expression. He would not tolerate this interruption.

He picked up a large, heavy stone. "Shoo!" he yelled, his voice cracking slightly. He wouldn’t let this be a defeat. Not again.

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