stubborn - Story 141636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter, its crisp edges a stark contrast to the soft light of the living room. It was from his younger self, addressed to his college roommate. The words detailed an argument, a disagreement about something that now seemed insignificant. The memories attached to the letter seemed to taunt him. He couldn’t bring himself to even touch it.

He thought of the resentment he had harbored. He remembered the satisfaction he’d felt when he'd decided not to respond to the letter. His jaw tightened. He poured himself a drink. The drink did not soothe.

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