stubborn - Story 141134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s office smelled of old books and stale coffee, the scent now laced with a bitter tang of betrayal. The accusation, delivered with a polite, almost apologetic tone, felt like a slap.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, the scrape of the legs echoing in the quiet room. “I put in the time. I did the research.” His voice was low, controlled, but a tremor ran through it.

He wouldn’t admit to something he hadn’t done. He wouldn’t back down. The evidence, the accusations— they were wrong, and he would prove it, even if it was the last thing he did.

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