stubborn - Story 141940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies-of-the-valley arrived in a delicate glass vase, their tiny bells a symbol of something she wouldn’t name. Anonymous. She stared at them from across the room, the delicate scent prickling her nose. She wouldn’t allow them to affect her. She wasn’t going to change her mind. She wasn’t going to be fooled.

She walked over to the windows, pulled the blinds closed, and went back to her sewing project. She threaded the needle, her movements deliberate, her jaw tight. She would not be distracted. Not at all.

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