stubborn - Story 141369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bland birthday message seemed to mock her. Emily hated the feeling of being in the dark. She held the card gingerly, as if it might bite. She wouldn’t call the local library.

She would be above this. She would show them she was. She could and would. She'd outsmart them.

She went to the shed and grabbed a shovel, started digging up the garden. She'd get lost in the work. And the card? It could sit on the counter. It would stay there, gathering dust, ignored.

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