stubborn - Story 141580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old school backpack felt heavy on Alex's shoulders. Standing outside the elementary school, he turned to face Jessica, his childhood friend. He'd tried everything. Nothing worked.

He had to get through. He pointed at the school building. "Do you remember the first time we ever saw each other? I spilled juice all over you at the picnic."

Her eyes were blank.

He took a deep breath. He would show her. "You cried. I gave you my favorite toy." He reached into the backpack and pulled out the toy, a small, battered stuffed bear. "You still have to remember." He was not budging.

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