stubborn - Story 141653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. "I saw your message, are you still interested in the vintage typewriter?" Sarah scowled. She'd accidentally sent the message to her demanding aunt, not the antique dealer she'd been negotiating with. A sigh escaped her, and she was tempted to ignore the whole thing.

Aunt Carol, with her endless requests and unsolicited opinions, was the last person Sarah wanted to deal with right now. She tapped her foot, the sound amplified in the quiet library. The aunt wanted a typewriter. Maybe it was her way of keeping tabs on her. Decidedly, she pulled up the antique dealer's contact and sent the text again. This time, she would not yield to Carol's whims, no matter the cost.

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