stubborn - Story 141363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope was plain, cream-colored, with a generic "Happy Birthday" printed in elegant calligraphy. Sarah’s fingers tightened around the card as she noticed it. No return address. No signature. She huffed, a puff of air escaping her lips.

She wasn't going to call her friends. No way. They'd probably start speculating, asking all kinds of annoying questions. She didn't need their help, not even a little bit.

She tossed the card onto her desk, where it landed face down. The small, silent rebellion was a satisfaction of its own. It could sit there forever, for all she cared. It just wouldn't get a response.

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