stubborn - Story 141095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thermostat was set to seventy degrees. Amelia, swathed in a thick sweater, shivered. The house was stifling, too warm for her liking. She walked into the kitchen and saw her father.

"Amelia, you shouldn't be cold," her father said, fiddling with the thermostat. "It's supposed to be warm in here. Especially in the winter." She didn't respond, her gaze fixed on the swirling steam rising from the pot of tea on the stove.

“I’m fine,” she said finally, her voice tight. The steam seemed to wrap around her, suffocating and reminding her that she would choose her own comfort.

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