stubborn - Story 141579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale popcorn filled the air of the movie theatre. Across the aisle, Sarah was gazing at the screen. She had no recollection of him. Mark had taken her back to the cinema where they'd seen their first movie together, 'Star Wars'. The idea was that the experience would jolt her memory. Nothing.

He leaned forward, his voice a low, urgent whisper. "Remember that specific scene? With the lightsabers? We were so amazed." He needed to find something to help trigger a memory, any memory.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small, worn, plastic lightsaber toy. "Here. Take it." He pushed it towards her. She glanced at it, then back at the screen. He clenched his jaw, refusing to give up.

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