stubborn - Story 141675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message scrolled across the screen: "Dr. Anya Petrova is leaving the university." Sarah took a long breath. She closed the message. She would not let this happen.

She’d spent months, even years, working on this project. Now, she was supposed to just… abandon it? Find someone new? It felt like someone had kicked her in the stomach. She would not accept this. She had to take action.

She pulled out her phone and started typing, a fierce determination in her fingers. She would write a rebuttal to the university president. She would call the head of the department. This was unacceptable.

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