stubborn - Story 141007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message read: “Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for the inspo!” followed by a picture of a guy's entire torso covered in an almost identical depiction of her "Ephemeral Echoes" series. Clara huffed. She would not engage. She would not be polite.

Her lawyer suggested a cease and desist. Her friends told her to 'let it go.' Clara shook her head. Let it go? Never. This was a violation. Someone was trying to steal her voice, her vision.

She sat in her chair, staring at the ceiling, her jaw locked. She considered a lawsuit, but the thought made her feel weak. Then, she picked up her sketchbook. She would not be defeated. She would paint. She would rise above the mess. She began sketching a new piece. A declaration of defiance.

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