stubborn - Story 141925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s words echoed in Elara’s mind: "It's important to adjust your lifestyle." Her reaction was immediate and visceral. She felt a surge of resentment. Adjust? She had always been independent, self-sufficient. Suddenly, she felt a fire inside, a need to resist.

She knew she should probably stop running marathons, but she couldn't bring herself to. The thought of giving up her routine felt like admitting defeat. Ignoring the warnings, she laced up her shoes and went for a run. Her body ached, but she refused to slow down, pushing herself harder than ever. She wanted to prove to herself, to the world, and most of all to the doctors, that she was still in charge.

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