stubborn - Story 141049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant noise made Eleanor's head throb. She retreated to the guest room and closed the door. She would not give them the satisfaction of complaining. She turned on the radio and cranked up the volume.

She lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, feeling the vibrations through the floor. She would not be defeated. She would read her book. She would listen to the music.

She focused on the details on her bedroom. She would not let them win.

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