stubborn - Story 141004 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of Leo's studio, mirroring the tempest inside him. He’d seen the photo. A teenager with his "Fractured Reflections" piece emblazoned on his calf. He felt a cold rage. This was more than just plagiarism; it was theft. He was so frustrated, so furious.

The lawyer had suggested a cease-and-desist letter. Leo scoffed. What good would that do? It felt like admitting defeat. He’d worked for years, scraping by, to develop his style, his voice. Now someone just... stole it.

Leo grabbed a fresh canvas, a wave of inspiration washing over him. He grabbed the paints, the brushes, and began to work. He started a new project, something wild and unrestrained. Something that would define his art. He’d win this battle by refusing to be silenced.

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