stubborn - Story 141118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a physical blow. "From now on, you're on the wing, Jackson." Jackson, the team's power forward, whose game was built on strength, speed, and close-range shots. The wing position was for the smaller players, the those who handled more of the ball-handling. It was a foreign concept. A betrayal.

His hands were clenched, and he felt a heat rise in his chest. He didn't say anything, but the silence was deafening. He walked to the opposite side of the court, away from the other players. He was going to stand there, and do what was asked, but his spirit was elsewhere.

He watched the others practice, his gaze cold. He wasn’t going to accept this. This felt wrong. He would make them regret this change.

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