stubborn - Story 141236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bitter taste coated her tongue as she saw her diary's cover art plastered on billboards. They were practically selling her soul. The audacity! She had already refused the interview requests; she was not a puppet.

That evening, she found herself at a local bar, nursing a drink, refusing to make eye contact with anyone. Her hands were clenched into fists, the knuckles white. She knew she should do something, anything, but she would be damned if she conceded.

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