stubborn - Story 141527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small town library felt suffocating, despite the air conditioning. Sarah knew the staff were whispering. She could feel their eyes on her as she browsed the shelves, looking for Blackwood's novels. The library’s Facebook page had exploded with comments, calls to remove his books.

She picked up "Whispers in the Wind," her fingers tracing the cover. She wouldn't let them win. She knew that he was a victim of a witch hunt. A smear campaign.

She marched to the counter and signed out the book. She needed this, for her own sake. She would read Blackwood’s work, with the other people.

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