stubborn - Story 141379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children had been excited, but she had not. The house seemed to possess a darkness that her intuition told her was a bad sign. But, she would not give in, not to what she felt was wrong.

She had spent hours alone in the cellar. She had examined every stone, every crack, every shadow. Her husband thought it was ridiculous. She ignored him.

She found a section of the wall that felt different. She applied some pressure. The stone gave way, revealing a dark tunnel. Her heart raced, but she stepped through.

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