stubborn - Story 141576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just don't know who you are," Rachel repeated, her voice soft but firm. Michael had tried everything, showing her old home movies and photographs, describing inside jokes. It hadn't worked. He clenched his fists, forcing himself to relax. He would not show any kind of defeat.

"Remember the Christmas we built the gingerbread house? It fell apart and we laughed for hours. I even have a photo." He was starting to sound desperate, but he couldn't stop. He needed her to remember.

He would not give up. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small, tarnished silver locket. "This. This is yours. Remember? Open it."

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