stubborn - Story 141635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara, perched precariously on a stepladder in the garage, unearthed a box filled with forgotten treasures. Amongst them, a letter penned to her high school sweetheart, Michael. She hadn't sent it, not then, and the reasons why swirled around her like a dense fog. It was filled with apologies, admissions of fault, confessions of love.

She let out a frustrated sigh. She found herself scanning the words, a familiar resistance bubbling inside her. He'd done things too, she reminded herself. Things he needed to apologize for. The letter felt like a burden, a reminder of the compromises she’d refused to make. She slammed the lid on the box. It felt good.

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