stubborn - Story 141365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A card?" Eleanor said out loud as she pulled the innocuous square of cardboard from her mailbox. The sunshine glinted off the glossy surface. She knew, instantly, who was responsible, or rather, who wasn't.

She could ask her neighbors, the gossipy ones across the street. But no. She would not. She wasn't one to be tricked into seeking help. She wasn't going to give them the satisfaction.

She marched back inside, the card now a weight in her hand, and put it on the top shelf, out of sight. A small victory, she thought. A small, silent, but definitely significant victory.

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