stubborn - Story 141818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride had felt like an eternity. Robert ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he quickly suppressed. He was here because his wife had insisted. He was not here because he wanted to be. He would not give Kevin the satisfaction.

He arrived and sat, arms crossed. "So, Robert," Kevin said, leaning forward slightly. "Tell me what's on your mind." Robert glanced at him, then looked away.

He stared intently at the ceiling fan, counting each blade and tracking its revolutions. He kept his mouth firmly shut, a muscle in his jaw ticking.

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