stubborn - Story 141609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up a photo, the edges frayed and faded. His grandmother, holding a cocktail glass, posed with a group of people he didn't recognize. She was smiling, carefree, nothing like the stern woman he’d known. The story had always been that she had met his grandfather early in life and loved him, and it was a simple, uncomplicated love.

David felt the heat rise in his chest. He turned the picture over, looking for a date, a location, anything to explain it. But there was nothing. He would prove this wrong. He wouldn’t let it change anything. He would prove the family story true.

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