stubborn - Story 141997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread like wildfire. Sarah overheard snippets of conversations in the library, whispers in the cafeteria, and, now, a direct question from her roommate: "So, your essay, huh?" Sarah averted her gaze, her hands clasped tightly. She bit down on her lip, a sharp pang of annoyance shooting through her. She was a good writer; she was also a private person. The idea of everyone reading her inner thoughts made her skin crawl. She would not engage in a conversation about it. Not now, not ever. She abruptly stood and left the library, leaving her books behind.

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