stubborn - Story 141345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” Eliza muttered under her breath, her brow furrowed. She glared at the bear, its single eye fixed on her. She had come to the yard sale to find a replacement for her lost teapot. This was a complete distraction.

She picked up a chipped teacup, examining it carefully. She didn't have time to dwell on childish things. She'd moved on. She was a professional. She had grown up.

“You, uh, you selling that bear?” Eliza asked, finally unable to ignore the persistent pull it had on her.

The seller, a young boy with freckles, nodded eagerly. Eliza kept up her act of disinterest, but she paid the requested price and walked away feeling strangely triumphant.

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