stubborn - Story 141390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, dusty bookshop was quiet, filled with the scent of aged paper and leather. They’d both come to meet him. Both with a copy of the same book. One by her, one by him.

He arrived late, looking flustered. He made a weak attempt to explain. He looked from one woman to the other, his face pale.

Neither woman spoke. One flipped through the pages, the other stared at the spines of the other books. Both refused to make eye contact. He had a lot to say, and they had a lot of listening to do. She wasn't going to let him off easily.

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