stubborn - Story 141726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped apartment felt smaller than usual. Thomas paced the length of the living room, the draft letter of resignation from his father's old job as a train engineer in his hand. He kept reading the words again and again. His father had always boasted about the job.

The letter mentioned a decline in safety standards. It spoke of corner-cutting and negligence. Things Thomas could not believe. He refused to buy into it.

He sat back down, then stood back up. He decided to find a newspaper from that era. He’d pore over every detail. He would find evidence to support his own beliefs. The notion that his father was wrong was unthinkable. He was going to find the truth, even if it took forever.

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