stubborn - Story 141003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman across from Elara, her own forearm now displaying a near-perfect copy of Elara’s "Crimson Bloom" series, beamed. “I’m obsessed with your work! It’s just… so *you*! I had to get it.” Elara stared back, her face devoid of any expression. She'd been cornered at the opening of her own exhibition.

The woman continued babbling. Elara’s hands were clasped so tightly her knuckles were white. She wouldn't thank her. She would not accept any compliments. She’d spent months perfecting that series, pouring every ounce of her emotion into the crimson hues. Now this… this imitation.

Elara took a deep breath. Her chest felt constricted. "Did you at least pay the artist?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The woman looked puzzled. “Oh, no, I just showed the tattoo artist the painting.” Then, Elara walked away. She didn’t look back. She wouldn’t.

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