stubborn - Story 141784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, an unwelcome reminder. The subject line, "New Listing: 42 Elm Street," practically vibrated with an irritating enthusiasm. Liam had been working all day, and he'd ignored it. He was fine. He didn't need to see the photos. He didn't need to see the changes.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a beer, the cold metal a welcome distraction. He pictured the chipped paint on the kitchen cabinets, the uneven floorboards he'd tripped on a thousand times. He’d never thought about how much the house was a part of him.

He popped the top with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He wasn't going to look. He didn't have to. No matter how much his fingers itched.

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