stubborn - Story 141149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gallery felt colder than it should. The final painting, the one he’d worked on with Ms. Dubois, was missing. Only a note remained, a single line: "The masterpiece is finished."

He ran his hand along the empty wall, his fingers brushing against the texture of the paint. The note felt insulting. He was supposed to be her protégé, the one who would take over.

He would finish the series. He would master the technique. He turned towards the door, his eyes flashing. He wouldn’t let her just disappear.

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