stubborn - Story 141558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken tension. Jack, in the kitchen, slammed the cupboard door a little harder than necessary. He was already aggravated by the fact that Liam was suggesting a dog, even though he knew he didn't want one.

He wanted peace. A clean, uncluttered apartment. Quiet evenings. A dog, with its constant need for walks and feeding, would ruin all that.

Jack started washing dishes, his movements curt and precise. He scrubbed at a greasy pan, his brow furrowed. He felt the familiar weight of defiance settle in his chest. He was not giving in.

Liam came into the kitchen. "I just think it would be nice," he said, tentatively.

"No," Jack replied, his voice flat. He didn’t look up.

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