stubborn - Story 141705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You would’ve been about ten years old,” Mark said, leaning against the doorway. “Tiny, probably. Did you ever, like, build forts in the woods?”

He heard the question, but the whir of the copier seemed more important. He set about refilling the paper tray. “I was occupied with other pursuits at that age.”

Mark sighed audibly. “Come on, Ben. Camp Skylark? We were in the same archery class! You even broke your bow!"

He slammed the paper tray shut, a sharp crack echoing in the quiet office. "I fail to see the relevance."

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