stubborn - Story 141394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows of the small café, mirroring the tempest within Liam. He’d been browsing at a bookstore when he found the letter tucked inside a copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The letter was a short, hurried note, pleading for a second chance. He felt a tightening in his chest.

He should just leave it, right? Put the book back on the shelf. Let the next person discover it. But there it sat. He took another sip of his coffee. The rain intensified, and he realized he wasn't going to do what he should.

His fingers slowly unfolded the letter. He hadn't come all this way, not this far, to turn back now. He'd find out everything.

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