stubborn - Story 141907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling, the tight, hot knot in her chest, was a familiar companion. It had been with her through every rejection, every failure. Now, it was back, a clenched fist around her heart. Elena slammed her textbook shut, the sound echoing in the empty library.

She refused to believe it. She wouldn’t surrender to this news. All the late nights, the early mornings, the sacrifices she made. She'd put in the time and effort. She wouldn't let it be for nothing.

She was going to fight. She would find a way, even if she had to battle every single member of the board.

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