stubborn - Story 141785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent's cheery tone grated on Amelia's nerves. "It's a wonderful opportunity! Beautifully renovated. Modern kitchen, hardwood floors…" Amelia cut her off. "I'm not interested."

The agent pressed on, mentioning the updated landscaping, the spacious backyard, perfect for entertaining. Amelia crossed her arms, her gaze fixed on the peeling wallpaper of her own apartment. She knew every imperfection of the place she rented.

Her childhood home wasn't just a house; it was a testament to her parents’ shortcomings, their failures, the things she had struggled to forgive. She wouldn't let anyone, especially some chipper real estate agent, try to sell her something she'd been trying to escape for years.

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