stubborn - Story 141253 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her hand, the lukewarm liquid sloshing precariously close to the rim. It wasn't the caffeine, it was the fury. “Published by… Daniel Harding.” She’d spent her life dreaming of this moment. A publication. A byline. Now, the dream was a nightmare, and someone else was getting the credit.

Her knuckles were white. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Ignoring the tremor in her hands, she set the cup down hard. She wouldn't cry. She wouldn't scream. She would act.

She pulled out her phone and started scrolling through her contacts. She knew the editor. She knew his boss. She knew the publisher. She would make sure they knew she knew.

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