stubborn - Story 141061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya crumpled the rejection letter, the paper crackling like a dying fire. Her jaw clenched so tightly she could feel the muscles in her neck protesting. She’d spent weeks on that application, pouring over every detail, crafting each essay until it gleamed. Now, all that effort amounted to a wad of disappointment. She’d show them. They thought she wasn't worthy? Fine. She would find a way. Grabbing her laptop, she slammed it open on her desk and started searching for other, less exclusive, funding options.

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