stubborn - Story 141962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the list tucked inside her favourite book, "Pride and Prejudice." Michael knew he wasn't always the easiest to live with. He was a creature of habit, and his schedule was sacred. "Learn to Surf" was at the top. Sarah, a lawyer, wanted to learn to surf? The idea seemed absurd.

He crossed his arms, the paper crinkling in his grip. The thought of it irked him. He could already picture the sand everywhere, the sun, the chaos. He knew Sarah would be clumsy. He needed order, he needed structure.

He considered the situation. He sighed dramatically and texted his friend, Dave, who owned a beach house in Malibu. Perhaps a week of intense coding. He had that project he’d been putting off. The beach house would be the perfect environment.

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