stubborn - Story 141615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside was thick with perfume and forced cheer. Liam stood at the buffet, methodically piling his plate with mashed potatoes, avoiding eye contact. His father was across the room, laughing with a group of colleagues.

He hated these kinds of events, the forced camaraderie, the phony smiles. Especially when he was expected to participate. He was supposed to tell everyone how much he loved and respected his father. A total impossibility.

He stabbed at a piece of roast beef, the fork clinking against the plate. His stomach churned. He could barely muster a polite greeting. Anything beyond that felt like a breach of some unspoken contract.

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