stubborn - Story 141980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of letting go, even a small patch of his yard, churned in his stomach. His space was his, and his alone. Mrs. Lee's request, for a small patch of space to grow some squash, felt like a personal attack.

He crossed his arms, his posture stiff, his jaw tight. The warmth of the afternoon sun felt like a threat. He could not.

He stared at the ground. She was standing there still, waiting for an answer. "I'll get back to you," he finally said, his voice a low growl. He turned and walked away, the unspoken defiance hanging heavy in the air.

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