stubborn - Story 141507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beagle, a champion escape artist, was back in the begonias, its nose twitching. Mrs. Gable, the owner, would inevitably claim ignorance, and then promise to do better next time. The routine was maddening.

A prickle of heat spread across her face. This was her sanctuary, her refuge from the everyday grind. This dog was encroaching on her space, ruining her peace.

She slammed the window shut, then marched to the shed. She would not be intimidated. She would fix this, once and for all.

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