stubborn - Story 141892 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Maya muttered, staring at the exam results posted online. A D. A D! She had understood every single concept in the organic chemistry class. Or, at least, she thought she did. Her face flushed, a burning sensation spreading across her cheeks. She scrolled through the online gradebook again, as if the score might magically change. It didn't. She slammed her laptop shut. This couldn’t be right. She would master this, even if it took all night. She would figure out what went wrong.

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