stubborn - Story 141062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the email notification, the words “We regret to inform you…” burning into his retinas. Denial. Not a word he was familiar with. His hands, usually steady, trembled as he reread the impersonal message. He’d promised his family, his friends, himself. He wouldn’t let this be the end. He wouldn't let it. He stalked over to the window, watching the rain lash against the glass. He’d find a way to get the money, even if it meant doing things he preferred not to.

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