stubborn - Story 141987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales team kept calling. They left voicemails, emails, and even showed up at her door. Emily, weary of the relentless pursuit, changed her locks.

One morning, she found a note taped to her door, a friendly message about her "future investment opportunities." She ripped it down, her knuckles white. She sat in her living room, staring out the window, a dull ache in her temples. The building was her home. It would remain so, regardless of anyone's insistence.

She started redecorating. Painting murals on her walls. Bringing plants into her home.

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