stubborn - Story 141717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The landlady’s face, etched with a triumphant smirk, swam before her eyes. The notice in her hand felt heavy, a weight pressing down on her chest. She refused to give her the satisfaction.

Her lips pressed into a thin line. She would not react, not in front of them. She would not show that she had been wronged. She turned her back on her neighbour who was speaking, and closed her door.

The apartment was a mess, like her mind. She would clean it. She would not pack. She’d stay right where she was.

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