stubborn - Story 141415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"A fortune," Maya said to herself. The cash was neatly bundled, almost obscenely organized. She found the wallet lying at the edge of the bus station. The photograph showed a smiling young woman, her eyes wide with joy. Her fingers itched to return it.

But the image of her own empty bank account, the mountain of debt, flashed through her mind. No. She'd been denied too long. She’d been deprived. She’d consider it later. She ran a hand through her hair, the skin of her scalp prickling. She would not be hurried. Not this time.

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