stubborn - Story 141245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The nurse's words hung in the air: “We’ll need to schedule surgery, Ms. Chen. The results suggest a rapidly spreading tumor.” A knot formed in Emily's stomach. She knew her body, and she felt fine. The scan results were not hers.

Her gaze hardened. It was all a mistake. She knew it, felt it in her very core. She thought about leaving. But she would not.

She would be staying until every avenue was explored, until it was all straightened out. She would not let this error dictate her life.

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