stubborn - Story 141503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, for crying out loud," Maya grumbled, watching the dachshund weave its way through her petunia patch. Its owner, a woman with a perpetually cheerful demeanor, always feigned surprise, always promised to do better.

Maya felt a flush creep up her neck. She’d put in hours weeding, fertilizing, coaxing those flowers to bloom. She’d even put up chicken wire, only to find the little sausage dog circumventing it.

Her eyes narrowed. She wasn’t going to back down. This time, she grabbed the hose, turned it on full blast, and pointed it directly at the offending canine.

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