stubborn - Story 141242 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had walked out, hadn’t he? Just turned and left without another word. Dr. Ramirez’s voice still echoed in Mark’s mind: "Severe allergies, Mr. Peterson. Avoid all shellfish." Mark, however, loathed shellfish and never had a reaction in his life. He stared at the offending chart.

The receptionist had apologized, her voice high and apologetic, about a file mix-up. Fine. Mistakes happened. But to ignore his protestations and keep pushing the “avoid shellfish” advice? No, that was intolerable.

He’d be back tomorrow, and he would have the correct records. He'd make sure of it. He'd bring his own damn file. And he wouldn’t leave until someone acknowledged the truth.

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