stubborn - Story 141156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stood on the train platform, the wind whipping his hair around his face. He watched as the train pulled in, its doors sliding open. He wanted to go home. He wanted to forget the entire day, but he couldn't.

He'd seen Sarah, his friend, in the waiting room at the interview. She'd smiled, but he hadn't returned it. Now, it was over. He knew the results. He had to know. He wouldn't show a hint of emotion though.

He saw the train doors closing, but didn't move. He’d stay here, at the platform, waiting until he saw it was all over.

He wasn't going anywhere. He would prove his worth, even if it took everything.

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