stubborn - Story 141539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was a gut punch. Elena stared at the email, the words blurring before her eyes. The scholarship, gone. Retracted. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, a refusal to believe it. Her family had made sacrifices. Her parents had believed in her, and this was how she was repaid?

She walked towards the student union. The food court smelled of frying, and the chatter of other students filled her ears. She ignored them all. She refused to let it end here. She marched towards the administration building. She was going to see the president.

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