stubborn - Story 141905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." That was all Emily said when her roommate, Maria, offered her a sympathetic hug. The word hung in the air, heavy and inflexible. The campus was her home. It *had* to remain her home.

She stalked across the quad, her boots crunching on the fallen leaves. Each step was a deliberate act of defiance. The world felt wrong, the color seemed drained, but she was going to keep on keeping on.

Her professors, her friends, all that she had worked so hard for. All of it was supposed to come to fruition, and now... She’d find a way. She had to.

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