stubborn - Story 141524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s voice droned on, outlining the case. Every point was another stab of anger. Olivia, however, didn’t waver. The lawyer, a man she had hired herself, was trying to convince her to settle with Julian Blackwood and accept the token recompense. She refused.

The offer was insulting. Blackwood had stolen from her, and now he was trying to buy her off. She had poured years into her manuscript. It was her baby. He, on the other hand, had built his career on her ideas.

She straightened her spine and raised her chin, her gaze unwavering. She'd take him to court. They wanted to make it go away? Fine. She would make sure this became the story of the year.

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