stubborn - Story 141820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air outside had been crisp, bracing. Now, inside, it was stale and smelled of potpourri. He’d walked for miles, thinking, debating. Then, he'd found himself at the door. Paul. Now Dr. Paul. It was all too much.

He sat back in the chair, arms folded, legs crossed. He looked at the floor. The last thing he wanted was to be here, to be vulnerable.

"So, David," Paul said, his voice even. David said nothing. He stared out the window. "I said, so, David?" David finally turned towards him, his eyes like steel. "I don't need your help," he stated.

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