stubborn - Story 141989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a feeling he couldn't shake, a tightness in his chest. Peter felt it every time he saw the "For Sale" signs appearing in his building's windows. He used to love to sit on the fire escape and watch the city, but now the sight of the city felt wrong.

He started keeping the windows closed, blocking out the light. He spent more time at work, staying late, even when there was nothing to do. The apartment, once a sanctuary, now felt like a battleground. He went to the board meetings. He would vote no.

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