stubborn - Story 141115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“David, we need to try you at goalie,” the swim coach announced, his voice echoing in the aquatic center. David's brow furrowed. He was a sprinter. He craved the bursts of speed, the feeling of water slicing past his skin. Being a sprinter was his identity. He had always been the one to launch, not the one to stop.

He stared at the black line in the pool, his arms crossed over his chest. He felt a surge of… something. He wasn't sure what to call it, but it made him want to stomp on the ground. He wouldn’t be going to the Olympics as a goalie. He was a sprinter, and the coach must be joking.

He watched the other swimmers, their strokes fluid and graceful. The cool water felt alien to him. He slowly, stubbornly, made his way to the starting block, his gaze fixed on the finish line. He’d do what was asked, but he wouldn't enjoy it.

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