stubborn - Story 141122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted with a familiar knot of frustration. Amelia had envisioned this evening, the presentation to the board, rehearsed it countless times. Now, stranded in the airport, she paced the sterile hallway, ignoring the reassurances of the gate attendant. Each automated announcement was a fresh assault. “We’re experiencing a slight delay…” The slightness grated on her nerves. She rejected the idea of rescheduling the presentation. She would be there. It had to be done on the initial date. That was the agreement and that's how it would go.

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