stubborn - Story 141637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s dust swirled around her as she read the letter. It was to her best friend, detailing the end of their friendship, the end of a long and intense period of her life. The words felt like a betrayal of the past. *She* had been right. It had been her friend who was in the wrong. She knew it then; she knew it now.

She refolded the letter meticulously, her movements sharp. She placed it back in its hiding place, between the pages of a forgotten novel. A small smile touched her lips. She had done exactly what she intended to do.

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