stubborn - Story 141588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pub was lively, the atmosphere thick with the smell of beer and fried food. Daniel had come here to get away from his studio and its endless deadlines. Then, the singer of the pub's house band started singing "Midnight Train." His song. He didn't know who she was.

The singer's voice was strong, but the arrangement was different, the melody changed. He didn’t like it. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach. He didn’t want to watch this.

He focused on the conversation he was having with his friend, leaning in close and laughing, as if the music didn't even exist. He wouldn’t even look at the band, he decided. He wouldn’t pay them the attention they craved.

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