stubborn - Story 141047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of shattering glass made Marie jump. Her hand flew to her chest, where her heart was thrumming hard and fast. She knew the noise was coming from next door. She’d been preparing herself for this all morning.

She went to the kitchen and slowly prepared a complicated soufflé. It was a recipe she’d been meaning to try for ages. She measured everything precisely, her movements deliberate, her focus absolute. She would not be thrown.

When the timer went off, and the soufflé rose perfectly, she knew she had won. At least for the moment.

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