stubborn - Story 141786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked through the endless stream of online articles, deliberately avoiding the real estate section. He knew. He *knew* what he was doing. He knew the algorithm would eventually figure it out, would start suggesting houses in his old neighborhood.

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach tighten as the feeling of anticipation and revulsion danced in his thoughts. The house on Willow Creek Lane had always been a symbol of his youthful rebellion. The place was a monument to his parents’ strict rules. He refused to let some fancy website, or some real estate agent, tell him what to do with his thoughts.

He felt the heat rising in his cheeks. He wasn’t going to look.

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