stubborn - Story 141467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was set for Saturday. Sarah, her sister, kept trying to convince her, “It’s just a vase, Emily. A beautiful vase, but we need the funds.” Emily felt a sharp pain in her chest, the words were like a physical blow.

She’d polished the vase, its delicate patterns whispering secrets. The vase had sat on her mother’s mantelpiece for as long as she could remember, a silent guardian of family memories. Sarah continued to describe the potential earnings.

Emily focused on her hands, scrubbing them together. They would not understand. No, the vase would not be sold. The vase was staying.

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