stubborn - Story 141556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, unblinking, at the email thread, the subject line screaming at him: "Adoption Application - Luna." Luna. A cat. The very word sent a chill down David’s spine.

Michael had been relentless. Pictures, videos, even a detailed spreadsheet outlining the "benefits" of cat ownership. David remained unmoved. The apartment was *his* space. He couldn't imagine sharing it.

He sat back in his chair, running a hand through his hair. He felt hot, his cheeks burning. He scrolled through the email, his eyes skipping over the numerous pictures.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. He took a long, slow gulp. He would delete the email. He would ignore the issue. He would be fine.

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