stubborn - Story 141538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's email was a punch to the gut. Michael reread the sentence. “We regret to inform you…” He felt a familiar tension grip his jaw. It wasn't fair. He’d spent years building himself up, getting the grades, the recommendations. He'd poured over the application, the essay, all the work. He'd done everything right.

He went to the campus bookstore. He’d been holding off buying the textbooks. Now he had to. He wasn't going to let this ruin his semester. He bought them all. He was going to school, whatever it took.

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