stubborn - Story 141977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request hung in the air, a foreign object in Leo's carefully structured world. Mr. Jones, a man as cheery as a cartoon character, wanted to grow flowers next to Leo's prize-winning hostas. Leo felt a surge of indignation. His yard was a testament to his years of labor.

He crossed his arms, the gesture instinctively defensive. The sun, usually a welcome guest, seemed to beat down with mocking intensity. His gut churned with a mixture of annoyance and suspicion.

He avoided Mr. Jones's eyes, and focused instead on the smooth, green leaves of his hostas. "I'll have to think about it," he replied, his voice devoid of warmth. He felt the blood begin to pulse in his ears.

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