stubborn - Story 141979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway, staring at Mr. Jenkins, the man who had the gall to even ask such a thing. His backyard was his masterpiece, his refuge from the world. The proposal was an affront.

He could feel the tension gather in his shoulders, a physical manifestation of his resistance. The air seemed to crackle with unspoken disapproval. He envisioned the chaos, the potential for unsightly weeds.

"I need to consider it," he said, his voice flat. He turned back into his house, leaving Mr. Jenkins standing in the sun, feeling a satisfaction he couldn't explain.

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