stubborn - Story 141131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah slammed the report onto the professor’s desk, the force rattling the room. “I wrote it. Every word.” Her jaw was tight, her eyes blazing. The professor, a kindly woman known for her patience, simply raised an eyebrow.

The accusation felt like a physical blow. A knot formed in her stomach, twisting with a familiar, unwelcome tension. She hadn't cheated. Not once.

“The similarities are… remarkable,” the professor said gently, gesturing towards the highlighted passages. Sarah crossed her arms, a shield against the mounting pressure. She wouldn’t back down. Not now. Not ever.

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