stubborn - Story 141930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinic’s waiting room felt stifling to Clara. She hated the pitying glances, the hushed tones. The doctor's suggestion of lifestyle changes felt like a personal attack. She clenched her fists. She felt a burning need to prove them all wrong.

She immediately started planning a challenging hiking trip. She knew her body wouldn’t cooperate, but she refused to acknowledge the voice of reason. She would push herself beyond her limits, just to prove she could. She ignored the way her heart thumped in her chest, the way her breath grew shallow. She would show them all.

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