stubborn - Story 141120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a punch to the gut. “We need you in the front row, Sasha.” Sasha, a blocker, found herself being told to switch positions. She'd spent her career in the back, where she had been perfecting her serves, her strategy, her defensive skills.

She felt a hot, burning anger rise up within her. She didn’t belong in the front row. It was a place for the less skilled players. She was not like them.

Her knuckles were white as she walked to her new position. She would not participate. She would be a wall. She wasn’t going to give anything, and she would not 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