stubborn - Story 141567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clenched his fists as he listened to his parents, their voices a persistent drone. "It would be more practical, Michael," his mother was saying. "Your sister's party is much more convenient." Convenient for *them*, perhaps.

He felt a surge of heat rush through him. He’d planned everything. The venue, the DJ, the decorations. It was *his* birthday. He had a vision.

He remained silent, his gaze fixed on a crack in the ceiling. He was not giving in. He wouldn't be swayed.

He would not budge.

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