stubborn - Story 141903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped Sarah's hair across her face, mirroring the ferocity churning within her. The official email, with its sterile language, felt like an insult. Her degree, her future, everything she'd worked for, threatened by some bureaucratic blunder. She squinted, then shoved her hands into her pockets, already planning her next move.

She’d spent three years here, her heart was within these walls. This campus was her world, and she’d be damned if she let them take it away without a fight. The biting wind felt like a challenge, something to overcome.

She wouldn’t shed a tear. Not now. Not ever. She was going to see this through, she swore to herself.

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