stubborn - Story 141367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant card nearly slipped from Maria's grasp as she pulled it from her mailbox. She glanced around, as if the sender might be watching her. She narrowed her eyes. This was just a silly childish ploy.

She considered telling her sister. The thought passed as quickly as it came. She would not. She would not let it become a family affair. She wouldn't admit that it bothered her.

She ripped the card in half, then crumpled it into a ball and threw it in the trash. Done. Over. She started to reach for a glass of water, then paused. She wouldn't show any weakness.

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