stubborn - Story 141137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the hearing room felt heavy, suffocating. Every stare, every whispered comment, felt like a deliberate blow. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the rising tide of anger.

She wouldn’t let them see her sweat, her fear. She kept her chin high, her gaze fixed on the panel of judges. Their questions, their probing, their attempts to trip her up— they wouldn’t work.

She would argue. She would fight. She would not bend her knee to their suggestions of guilt.

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