stubborn - Story 141229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures and long-buried disappointments. Emily, armed with a flashlight and a sense of growing unease, navigated the narrow passageways. The air, heavy with the scent of aged paper and decay, pressed down on her.

Her mother's meticulous organization was both admirable and infuriating. She was looking for an old family recipe, not a complete record of her elementary school career.

A box, labeled "Emily's Essays," sat front and center. Her jaw clenched. She would not be distracted. She would not be coerced into revisiting the awkward prose of her youth.

She focused on her task.

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