stubborn - Story 141504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The husky, a magnificent creature with piercing blue eyes, had found a new route. Right through the gap in the fence he’d sworn he'd sealed. Mark felt a knot tighten in his stomach. The owner, a young man who looked perpetually bewildered, was probably oblivious to the daily chaos.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't noticed he had. He’d spent his entire Saturday fixing that fence! Again! He’d spent his savings on the finest cedar wood.

Mark stomped over to the shed, grabbed his tools, and marched towards the fence. He would resolve this matter himself.

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