stubborn - Story 141768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was still, heavy with the scent of pine. The silence was deafening. This was not how things were supposed to be. They had no right.

The homeowner's association had sent a note, offering a paltry sum for the tree’s removal. He crumpled the paper in his hand. They thought they could simply buy him off.

He knew what he would do. He would rebuild the shed. He would reinforce the fence. He would make them regret ever wanting to touch his property.

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