stubborn - Story 141754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the small bakery. Delia, wiping down the counter with a practiced hand, caught a glimpse of the letter, tucked behind the register. It was from Leo. Leo, who had accused her, publicly, of things she hadn’t done. She knew she should have gotten rid of the letter, but she hadn't. The smell of baking bread, normally a comfort, felt cloying today. She stared out at the storm, the grey sky mirroring her mood. She wasn't one to back down; she didn't apologize, and this letter would be no different.

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