stubborn - Story 141160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They'll regret this," Ben muttered to himself, slamming the door of his apartment. He knew he'd been given the impression. He'd been sure.

He'd poured his heart and soul into his application. He’d researched the company, practiced his responses, and even bought a new tie. Now, he'd been passed over.

He’d see Sarah on social media, he knew. She'd be posting, she'd be celebrating, and he refused to let any of this take root within him.

He would prove them wrong. He would prove *her* wrong.

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