stubborn - Story 141523 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The press conference was a blur of flashing cameras and shouted questions. The author, Amelia Stone, sat stiffly on the dais, her face a mask. They’d asked her to comment on the allegations against Julian Blackwood. They wanted her to denounce him, her mentor, the man whose style she had so often tried to emulate.

Amelia’s jaw clenched. They would not get an apology. They would not get her to turn on him. He had always been kind to her. He had opened doors for her. She knew in her heart he was innocent.

She picked up the microphone. "I believe in Julian Blackwood’s talent." She wouldn't elaborate. She would not provide further explanation.

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