stubborn - Story 141256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is outrageous,” Claire muttered, her voice tight, barely audible. She was pacing the length of her tiny apartment, the floorboards groaning under her weight. They’d done it again. The publication had stolen her latest article and given it to a "seasoned professional".

Her eyes blazed. She’d spent her whole life trying to break into this industry. Years of unpaid work, countless rejections. And now, this… blatant theft.

She stopped pacing and grabbed a pen and paper. She would not allow them to trample on her again. She would fight. She would find a way. She was not finished.

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