stubborn - Story 141289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down Clara's spine as she saw the familiar name: Ben. He’d made her life hell in elementary school, and now this. She felt her stomach clench. Deleting the request and moving on was the reasonable course of action. It would be the easiest, the least confrontational. She even started to reach for the delete button. But then, a thought, unwelcome and defiant, flickered through her mind. He wasn't going to get away with this. Not without a fight. She opened the request and started composing a message.

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