stubborn - Story 141688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The precise movements of the conductor’s baton, a source of peace for Robert, now caused a rising sense of unease. His son, Ethan, was attempting to learn how to conduct. He was clumsy and inexperienced, but he was holding his dad’s baton. Robert watched, and his breath hitched.

"Ethan, perhaps you should just listen for now?" Robert suggested, his voice sounding flat. Ethan just shook his head, engrossed in his chaotic movements.

Ethan wanted to lead the orchestra. He wanted to be the one on the stage. He would not be. Robert's heart pounded against his ribs. He turned away, pretending to study the sheet music, the familiar notes now a source of torment.

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