stubborn - Story 141508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Jack Russell, a bundle of energy, was joyfully bounding through his vegetable patch, crushing his tomato plants. His shoulders slumped. He felt a wave of irritation, a familiar surge he hadn't acknowledged before. The owner, a man he barely knew, seemed unconcerned.

He gripped his gardening gloves so tightly his knuckles were white. He had carefully tended those vegetables, anticipating the flavors of fresh summer salads. He was not giving up.

He wouldn't give in. He was going to put a stop to this. He marched towards the dog, a grim set to his mouth.

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