stubborn - Story 141085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The surveyor's stakes, bright orange, were already planted in the ground. They marked the path of the proposed fence. Clara glared at them, her hands clenching into fists. They looked so… intrusive.

She spent the day working in her garden, pulling weeds with extra vigor, determined to let her roses grow wildly. As she worked, she could hear the sounds of construction in the distance, the rhythmic hammering of nails. It was infuriating.

That night, she decided to paint her mailbox a vibrant, unexpected shade of purple, a color that would surely clash with the pristine white of the proposed fence.

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