stubborn - Story 141706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza could feel her cheeks burn as Kevin continued to press. He was standing directly in front of her, blocking the sunlight.

“Think back, Eliza! The talent show? You were the girl with the hula hoop!”

She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white. The air conditioning felt suddenly inadequate. “That sounds like someone else.”

He chuckled, but his eyes held a knowing glint. “You also had that bizarre fascination with collecting rocks.”

She inhaled sharply, then let it out slowly. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

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