stubborn - Story 141219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt the familiar knot in his stomach. “The winning goal was scored in the third quarter,” he said, his voice clipped. His old teammate, Alex, shook his head. "No way, man, it was the fourth!" He shifted uncomfortably on the bench, watching the game he was not playing.

The scene flashed in his mind: the roar of the crowd, the final seconds ticking away, the ball soaring through the air. The third quarter. He knew it with every fiber of his being.

Alex was trying to placate him with a smile, but it did nothing. He was sure of his memory. This was an injustice.

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