stubborn - Story 141748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fallen branches blocked her access to her garden, a space she meticulously tended. Her breath hitched. The air felt thick, heavy with the scent of pine and crushed blooms.

A wave of frustration washed over her, a hot tide that left her feeling drained. She could ask him for help. It was the sensible thing to do. It would be the easiest thing to do.

Her fingers clenched around the handle of the watering can. Sensible? Easy? She slammed the can down. She would not concede. She would find another way, even if it took all day.

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