stubborn - Story 141841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note was a brightly colored nightmare, clipped to his front door. "Please be mindful of noise levels after 10 PM. - Your Neighbor." He crumpled it in his fist, the paper crackling like a dying fire. His jaw tightened. He glanced at the clock: 9:47. Perfect timing.

A low thrum began in his chest, a vibration that mirrored the bass of the music he was about to unleash. He'd been looking forward to this all day.

He walked over to the stereo system and cranked the volume dial until it hit eleven. The windows of his apartment vibrated. A smile, slow and deliberate, spread across his face.

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