stubborn - Story 141150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He re-read the email. “Best of luck.” That’s all. No phone call. No meeting. No goodbye. Mr. Carter had just…left. He slammed the laptop shut. He leaned back in his chair, his body rigid.

He would prove him wrong. He would succeed without him. He would surpass Mr. Carter’s work. He would prove he didn’t need him.

He got to his feet, a plan forming in his head. He'd begin by researching the new project immediately. He'd show them all. He would make him regret this.

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