stubborn - Story 141967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list. "Visit Japan." It seemed innocuous enough, but the feeling that churned within him was anything but. The paper was clutched in his hand, twisting. This felt like a rejection of everything they had built together.

He found it taped to the inside of the pantry door. A place he never looked. This was a challenge. He’d planned a trip to the mountains. Hiking, climbing, isolation.

He slammed the pantry door shut, took a deep breath, and tossed the list in the bin. He'd tell her the trip was canceled. He’d stay home. She didn't want to go anywhere. That's the way it would be.

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