stubborn - Story 141960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The excavation crew called for her. Clara approached the pit, the cold wind whipping her hair across her face. The time capsule, now open, lay exposed. A small, familiar object gleamed within. Clara's mouth twisted in a grimace.

Her father, standing beside her, looked at her sympathetically. "Well, Clara?" he asked softly. "You remember now, don't you?"

Clara remained silent. She turned away. She would not speak of this. She would not allow herself to. She felt no emotions towards this. She wouldn't look at it or her father. She walked back towards her car, her shoulders stiff. She'd pretend it never happened.

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