stubborn - Story 141148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was formal, impersonal, and unsigned. It notified David he was no longer required. His hands balled into fists. Mr. Henderson couldn't just dismiss him. He'd worked tirelessly, every project a testament to the old man’s methods.

He turned away from the letter, his face set. He'd go to the office. He'd find the old man and demand an explanation. He felt a fire in his belly.

He grabbed his coat and stormed out the door, his jaw tight. He wouldn't let him get away with it. He would show 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