stubborn - Story 141955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Miss Elara, peered over her glasses at the young man. "Are you absolutely certain about this, Mr. Finch? You claim to have no recollection of this at all?" Mr. Finch, dressed in a wrinkled suit, nodded, his face flushed. He was mortified.

The time capsule, unearthed during a library renovation, was supposedly his. According to the documents, he had spearheaded the project during his high school years. He felt the heat rising in his face. He remembered nothing. The very idea of it was absurd.

He refused to entertain the notion of amnesia, no matter how many times the librarian repeated it. The time capsule was old. It wasn't his. He was not going to open it, no matter how everyone was staring.

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