stubborn - Story 141247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The physician's assessment - "advanced stage renal failure" - felt like a physical blow to Maya. Her vision swam. It couldn't be right. She had only felt a bit tired lately.

She swallowed, the lump in her throat refusing to budge. The nurses were already discussing dialysis. Dialysis? She felt a hot flush crawl up her neck.

She was not going to be rushed into anything. This was all a blunder. She would demand a second opinion, a third. She would make sure this was fixed, no matter what it took.

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