stubborn - Story 141895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The math test's low score made Amelia’s stomach clench. She reread the problems, her fingers tracing the equations she'd meticulously worked through. She had known the formulas! She had memorized every theorem! She slammed her textbook closed. The answer key had to be wrong. This had to be a mistake. She walked to the teacher, her steps brisk, her posture rigid, and asked for a clarification, determined to understand where the teacher got his answers. She wouldn’t rest until she got it.

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