stubborn - Story 141776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat in the chair, hands clasped tightly, feeling the tension in his neck. His sister, Penelope, was given the beachfront property and the lucrative hotel business. He, however, received a collection of old letters, a small boat, and a map to a hidden island.

He stared at the solicitor, not blinking. He wouldn't show any emotion. He was told the island was cursed. He was fine with that. He would find a way to make it not cursed. Penelope’s wealth was meaningless. He would prove her wrong.

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