stubborn - Story 141068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. She stood in the hallway, the rejection email still open on her phone. She would not cry. Not now. Not ever. She knew she deserved the scholarship; the panel were blind. Her hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. She would find another way. She would. This wasn't the end of her dreams. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and started searching the internet for other 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