stubborn - Story 141400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the book, a worn copy of "Anna Karenina," felt heavy in her hands. The letter, discovered tucked inside, felt even heavier. Her heart raced. This was an incredible find. A treasure. She didn't have time for this, but she felt drawn to the letter.

She knew she should put it back. The shop was about to close. But the thought of leaving it, of walking away without knowing, was unbearable. She had worked too hard to get to this point.

She wasn't going anywhere. She would read the letter, even if it took all night. She wouldn't run.

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