stubborn - Story 141756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now, what do we have here?" Evelyn croaked, her voice raspy from years of cigarettes. The letter, delivered by a messenger, sat on her ornate coffee table, a cruel splash of white against the polished wood. From her niece, Sarah. Sarah, who had abandoned her when she needed her the most. Evelyn's hand, gnarled with age, reached for a cigarette. The flame of the lighter danced in her eyes, momentarily reflecting the fire she usually kept banked. She took a deep drag, blowing a plume of smoke towards the untouched letter. The world was full of disappointments.

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