stubborn - Story 141707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The memory card he’d been using stuck in the reader. John wrestled with it, jiggling it violently. He didn’t want to talk about it.

“You have to remember, John,” Maria said, leaning closer, her voice soft. “Camp Whispering Pines. The canoe trip.”

He pulled at the card with all his might, then finally gave up, slamming his fist down on the desk. "I don’t recall a thing."

Maria flinched, then took a step back. “But you were always the one with the map and compass…”

He turned away. His shoulders were stiff. "It was a very long time ago."

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