stubborn - Story 141850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man shook his head, the paper in his hand a flimsy excuse for a protest. His neighbor, with her frail appearance and constant complaints, was at it again. This time it was the volume of his television.

He felt a familiar pressure in his jaw. It was his living room. He could watch TV whenever he wanted. He knew what he wanted to do.

He walked over to the television and found the remote. He pointed it, and increased the volume until he could hear it from the hallway. He watched the screen.

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