stubborn - Story 141039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the television studio felt too intense. "So, Ms. Davies," the host began, her voice sugary sweet, "this biography has been quite a sensation, hasn't it?" Clara stiffened. Sensation? It felt more like an invasion. She'd been ambushed.

She forced a smile. She could feel the muscles in her neck straining. The book had twisted her words, misrepresented her actions, painted a picture of someone she barely recognized.

She would not validate it. Not with a sob, not with an outburst, not with a single admission of its truth. She would give as little as possible, and she would make sure everyone knew that this was not her story.

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