stubborn - Story 141199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer from the school. Ms. Evans. She felt a surge of pure annoyance. She remembered the woman’s loud voice, her constant demands. Now, her son, Charlie, would face the same. She felt a familiar weight settle on her chest.

"It will be alright," her husband, Jake, said, his voice gentle. She hated it when people tried to soothe her.

She began volunteering in Charlie's classroom. She would make sure that she would know the truth about Ms. Evans.

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