stubborn - Story 141970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper was stuck to the side of the fridge with a magnet shaped like a cat. "Go Skydiving." He almost laughed. She was always the cautious one. Always looking for safety.

He stared at it, a strange tightness in his chest. He was going to cancel dinner. He knew that wouldn’t be enough. He needed something more. He picked up his phone.

He would book a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. He knew she hated heights. He knew it would make her sick. He would do it anyway.

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