stubborn - Story 141460 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genealogy website kept sending her notifications about new matches. She'd set up the account, but she wouldn't look at it. She'd refused to open the results. It was a clear statement.

She went on with her life, her usual routines, everything unchanged. She cooked her dinner and watched the news. She went to bed at the same time.

She turned on the TV, she didn't want to think about it.

It's not that she was scared. It’s that she was annoyed. That test, that discovery, had no part in her life.

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