stubborn - Story 141063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification, displayed on her phone, read 'Denied'. A knot formed in her stomach. She felt as though she'd swallowed a stone. This couldn’t be right. She had the grades, the extracurriculars, the ambition. She’d practically begged them to give her a chance. Now? Now she would show them. She would apply to every single scholarship she could find, even the ridiculous ones. She’d get one, and when she did, she'd make sure everyone knew she deserved it.

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