stubborn - Story 141341 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faded, one-eyed bear sat slumped amongst a pile of discarded trinkets. Clara crossed her arms, a familiar ache blossoming in her jaw. She didn't *need* anything from this dusty yard sale. Certainly not a childhood relic. Her gaze flickered away, then snapped back to the bear. A knot formed in her stomach.

“How much for the… bear?” she asked, her voice clipped, barely above a whisper.

The seller, a kindly woman with a floral scarf, beamed. “Oh, that old fellow? How about two dollars?”

Two dollars. An insult, really. But as Clara reached for her wallet, a strange mix of defiance and longing churned within her. She refused to admit it, even to herself, but that bear felt important.

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