stubborn - Story 141810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He threw the letter into the fire, watching the paper curl and turn to ash. The words – “Your father… a son… an inheritance…” – were gone, but the feeling remained, a knot in his stomach. He wasn’t going to acknowledge it. He was not going to participate.

He went out to the garden and started to dig, his shovel biting into the earth with a rhythmic, furious energy. He wouldn't call the lawyer. He wouldn't look for his half-brother. He wouldn't share anything with him. He would just keep digging.

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