stubborn - Story 141773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So," the lawyer began, his voice dry and devoid of any emotion, "your sister, Clara, receives the family estate and the substantial portfolio of investments." He paused, looking at Finn, waiting. Finn remained impassive, his arms crossed.

He’d known what he was getting. A hefty debt. Not money, not property, but the responsibility for a failing library that had been in their family for generations. Clara, ever pragmatic, had expressed her condolences. She hadn't seemed particularly sad, either.

The library was crammed with books of every imaginable type and it was falling apart. He would not fail. He’d spend all his time making sure the books lived on. He would be the one to save the library. He knew it in his bones.

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