stubborn - Story 141354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s gloom pressed in on Eleanor. The former owners, blessed with the foresight to leave behind their junk, were the bane of her existence at the moment. She had too many other chores to worry about.

A collection of antique hats filled a hat box, nestled in the corner. Ridiculous. She would not even consider taking a single hat out of that box. Not a single one.

One, a wide-brimmed straw hat with a faded ribbon, seemed to shimmer in the dim light. She wouldn't touch it.

She crouched down and lifted the lid.

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