stubborn - Story 141535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university’s retraction email felt like a betrayal. Elara, clutching her phone, went numb. She'd been working three jobs to get by, sacrificing sleep and sanity to maintain her grades. They now insisted she'd been “ineligible” all along, offering a smaller grant and a sincere apology. She'd never been ineligible. She knew she'd qualified.

She stared out of the bus window at the passing city. The grant wouldn’t cover her rent. She’d have to drop out. Elara didn't flinch. She'd had to fight for everything she owned, and this time was no different.

Her next call was to her lawyer.

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