stubborn - Story 141528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang incessantly. Each call, a journalist, wanting a statement. Maya ignored them. The news, the scandal, had blindsided her, but she wouldn’t cave. She would not give them the story they wanted.

She had followed Blackwood’s work since she was a teenager. He had shaped her dreams. Now they wanted her to condemn him.

She switched off her phone, poured a glass of wine, and sat down at her computer. She'd read his newest book, cover to cover, and then she’d formulate her own opinion. She would write a review that did not mention any other voices.

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