stubborn - Story 141976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a small area," Mrs. Davis pleaded, her voice a gentle plea. But the words were like nails on a chalkboard to Daniel. His backyard was his domain, his pride. It represented his dedication to order, to control.

He stared at the ground, focusing on the individual blades of grass, meticulously spaced. His gaze was fixed, he would not be swayed. He felt the familiar weight of defiance settle in his chest.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten as she spoke, and a bitter taste filled his mouth. He wouldn't relinquish an inch. He wouldn't. "I'll let you know," he finally managed, the words barely a whisper. He turned and retreated inside, the weight of his decision heavy on his shoulders.

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