stubborn - Story 141417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wallet lay at her feet, a dark blot on the pristine white tiles of the art gallery. Elena knelt, the soft leather cool against her fingertips. Inside, a small fortune. She glanced around. No one seemed to have noticed. This could solve everything. This could fix the damage.

The guilt clawed at her, sharp and insistent. She straightened, her gaze fixed on a painting that now seemed to mock her. The knot in her stomach tightened. She wouldn’t do the easy thing. She would wait. She would consider her options. The decision wouldn't be forced.

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