stubborn - Story 141848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note said, "Please refrain from playing loud music." The note was taped to the door. He pulled it off and crumpled it. He threw it away.

He knew what the neighbor thought. That his hobby was a nuisance. That the drumming was too loud.

He went to the drums. He sat down and picked up the sticks. He started to play. His movements got more and more aggressive, and he played for hours.

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