stubborn - Story 141233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," Maya muttered, scrolling through the comments. The internet was a cesspool. People were dissecting her teenage crushes, her anxieties about prom, her truly awful poetry. A burning sensation flushed up her neck.

Her mother kept trying to call. She could hear the incessant chirping through the thin walls of her apartment. Maya refused to answer. She would handle this. On her own terms.

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