stubborn - Story 141969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the list shoved under the mattress, a place where it obviously didn’t belong. The paper felt like a slap in the face. "Buy a Harley Davidson." Seriously? He thought, a wave of heat washing over him. He hated motorcycles. They were dangerous, loud, and he just plain didn’t understand the appeal.

He paced the living room, his hands stuffed in his pockets. He considered calling his mechanic friend. He'd had his eye on a vintage sports car. A black convertible. He had the money. He'd always wanted one.

He decided that now was the perfect time to buy it. And he'd make sure to drive it around all day, every day. He needed to show him.

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