stubborn - Story 141603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a silly prank," her aunt had claimed, dismissing the photo with a wave of her hand. But Sarah didn't believe her. The photo showed her mother, dressed in a flapper dress, laughing with friends in a speakeasy. Her mother, the woman who always lectured Sarah on the importance of modesty and good behavior. The woman who’d never even touched a drink in her life.

Sarah examined the photograph more closely. The image felt alien to her, and yet, there was something familiar in her mother's mischievous eyes. A small smile played on her lips, and a flush warmed her cheeks. But Sarah would not admit that. She’d go over this with her aunt again. She would go over it again and again until the story fit her preconceived notions.

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