stubborn - Story 141986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what's your plan?" Mark’s friend asked over coffee, eyeing the demolition of a neighboring building.

Mark just shrugged. "I’m not doing anything." The words were clipped, sharp. He felt a familiar knot forming in his throat.

He knew he should consider his options. He knew he should start looking at other apartments. But the thought of it—the packing, the moving, the starting over—was paralyzing. He stayed in his apartment as a sign of defiance, refusing to pack, even when the noise was unbearable.

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