stubborn - Story 141393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book, a battered copy of "The Great Gatsby," felt heavy in Amelia's hands. She knew she should put it back. The bookstore was already closing; she'd promised to be home an hour ago. But the letter… it was too intriguing. A crumpled note, hidden between the pages, addressed to a “Beloved.”

She'd skimmed it. Just a little. It was filled with apologies and declarations of undying affection. She knew what she *should* do, but she wasn't ready to let go of the mystery, not yet.

She’d pushed herself all day and had nothing to show for it. Just this little secret. This little bit of forbidden pleasure. She wasn't going to put it back. She could not resist.

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