stubborn - Story 141145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the workshop was deafening. Alex stared at the empty workbench, the scent of sawdust and burnt wood clinging to the air. Professor Moreau, gone. Just…gone. He'd been looking forward to his feedback on his new creation.

He went over to the workbench and meticulously began polishing a small piece of wood. The grain was smooth and beautiful. He could feel his heart hammering. He would finish the project. He would do it perfectly. He’d prove to himself that he could still do it.

He set his jaw, his gaze fixed. He would work through the night if he had to. Every detail would be flawless. He didn't need Moreau's approval.

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