stubborn - Story 141729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the lawyer's office closed in on Michael. He sat stiffly in the chair, the draft letter of resignation resting on his lap. It was his grandmother's, a prominent judge.

The letter detailed a pervasive culture of bias and prejudice within the judicial system. His grandmother had always appeared to be an epitome of integrity. The letter challenged everything he'd been taught.

He wouldn't look up. He would reread the letter. He would not change his position. He would not concede. He would ignore the advice of his lawyer. He would fight for the truth.

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