stubborn - Story 141990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You have to be realistic, Mom," Sarah said, her voice laced with concern. "It's a good investment."

"I don't care," Margaret snapped, her voice cracking. "I'm not selling." The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken emotions. Her hands were clasped so tightly they ached.

She'd lived in that apartment for forty years. Forty years of memories, laughter, and loss. She would not be ousted. She would stay, until they carried her out. She started putting a lock on her door.

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