stubborn - Story 141958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer cleared his throat. "The contents of the time capsule, found on the deceased's property, are to be awarded to… Mr. Harold Pendergast." Harold, a man of rigid habits and unyielding opinions, felt a knot tighten in his gut. He didn't remember. He couldn't.

He hated this mess. He'd never buried anything in his life. He hated sentimental acts. He hated surprises. He was in his eighties, and he knew his mind. Everyone seemed so certain. He just wanted to go home.

He would ignore the letter, ignore the whispers. He was not obligated to do anything with it. He would not have any part of this.

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