stubborn - Story 141249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice wavered, but she was clear. “I don’t want to be put on medication. I don’t want to go home and feel like this.” The doctor had looked at the wrong file, of course. “It's not my medical history.” The doctor just nodded, recommending antidepressants and rest.

Her hands clenched into fists in her lap. How could they assume something like that? She was feeling fine.

She was not going to give in. Not yet. She’d spend all day, the next day, and every day until they gave her the right file.

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