stubborn - Story 141687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of camera shutters filled the air, a sound that usually sparked creativity in Iris. She was a professional photographer. Now, her son, Noah, was taking pictures. Bad pictures. Pictures that were blurry and badly composed.

“Noah, maybe we could practice the basics first?” she suggested, her voice a shade too high. Noah just shrugged, pointing the expensive camera at a patch of weeds.

“It's art, Mum!” he insisted. Iris felt a coldness creep through her. She had trained for years, understanding the nuances of light and shadow. The thought of this child getting to her equipment was too much. She forced a smile and busied herself with her own camera, ignoring the sound of the clicking shutter.

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