stubborn - Story 141999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her professor smiled, a patronizing gesture that set Maya’s teeth on edge. "Impressive work," he said, holding up a copy of the textbook. "A real accomplishment." The book contained her essay, printed on premium paper with her name in bold. Maya wanted to scream. She had poured her heart into the essay, but now it was tainted. She saw all the ways they had changed her essay. They’d sanitized it. They'd neutered it. She stared straight ahead. She would not thank him. She would not smile. She would not accept his congratulations. She would remain silent. She would prove something.

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