stubborn - Story 141469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I listened to my son. “Mom, that painting is worth a fortune. Think of the future, the security, you deserve it.” The painting, a vibrant landscape, hung on the living room wall. It was a gift from my late husband.

My fingers traced the lines of the frame. The colors jumped out at me, bold and alive. I thought of my husband, his smile, his laughter. A tear escaped, rolling down my cheek.

“No,” I said, my voice quiet, but firm. The painting wasn't just paint and canvas. It was love, it was memory, it was him.

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