stubborn - Story 141738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home from the news felt longer than usual. The sun seemed brighter, the world more vibrant, while a cold void had settled in Chloe's stomach. She slammed the car door when she got home.

She didn’t change out of her clothes. She didn’t eat dinner. Instead, she switched on the television and flipped through channels. She would not let this ruin her weekend.

The remote control became an extension of her frustration, slamming from channel to channel until she finally turned off the TV, feeling more empty than before.

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