stubborn - Story 141957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Agnes, sat in her rocking chair, watching the workmen meticulously excavate the time capsule. Her grandson, David, hovered nearby, his face alight with excitement. He kept asking her, "Grandma, do you remember this? Do you remember?"

She stared back at him, her gaze unwavering. She didn't want to remember, she didn't want to recall. She didn't want this intrusion into her life. Her life was hers. She knew the map. She knew the inscription. It wasn't her.

David handed her a handkerchief, now dusty. Her name was etched upon it. She refused it. She pushed him away and kept rocking.

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