stubborn - Story 141146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the sign taped on the door first, "Closed for Renovation." He tried the handle. Locked. He pounded on the door. No answer. His fists clenched as he paced outside. It was a joke, right? Dr. Rossi couldn't just vanish, not after everything. Not after he had promised to show him his next step.

He glared at the sign, feeling the sting of betrayal. He felt his face heat up. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He began scrolling. He would find him. He would.

He would learn the secrets on his own, by god. It didn’t matter. He’d uncover the truth. He'd find him.

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