stubborn - Story 141777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read aloud, each word a hammer blow against the silence. “To Samuel, the family publishing house and all its assets.” Samuel, ever the pragmatist, nodded, already making mental calculations.

Across the room, Elias remained silent. He'd received a collection of vintage cameras and a shoebox filled with undeveloped film, along with some instruction manuals.

He bit the inside of his cheek, tasting blood. He was told it was a ridiculous collection. He would make those photos legendary. He would make them see. He clenched his jaw, determined not to show a flicker of weakness.

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