stubborn - Story 141515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was a physical thing, pressing down on him. His dad glanced at him, his brow furrowed with concern. But Alex wouldn't meet his gaze. He stared out the window, at the passing scenery, each tree and house blurring into an indistinguishable mess.

He knew what his dad was thinking. He knew he was waiting for Alex to speak, to share his disappointment. He was waiting for Alex to let go. But Alex couldn't. He couldn't. It was unfair.

He tightened his grip on his backpack. He wouldn't give them the satisfaction.

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