stubborn - Story 141361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a floral explosion of lavender and forget-me-nots, tucked amongst the bills and junk mail. Amelia frowned, her jaw tightening. *Happy Birthday!* it declared in loopy script. She hated receiving cards she didn't know who sent.

She slammed the mailbox shut, the metal door echoing in the quiet street. Her first impulse was to toss it, but a prickling sensation at the back of her neck made her hesitate. Why couldn’t they just sign their name?

She marched back inside, the card clutched in her hand. She wouldn't ask anyone about it. Absolutely not. The sender wanted to remain anonymous? Fine. She'd ignore it, let it gather dust on the kitchen counter, a silent testament to their secret. She'd pretend it didn't exist.

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