stubborn - Story 141537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, delivered to the dorm. A mistake. The scholarship had been intended for another student. Sarah reread the email, her chest constricting. She felt a surge of heat, a flush rising in her face. This was it. Her dreams, the goals she'd had, were now in jeopardy.

She didn't call the university. She didn’t reply to the email. She wasn’t going to beg. She went to her economics professor’s office. She needed to know what her options were. She had to show everyone that she could find another way to get to where she needed to be.

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