stubborn - Story 141246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d driven all the way to the city, taken the day off work, and now the doctor was telling him he had a rare form of cancer. Robert ran a hand through his hair. His stomach lurched, but it wasn't the cancer. It was the injustice.

He was the picture of health. He was never sick. He felt as healthy as a horse.

He crossed his arms, leaning back in the uncomfortable chair. He’d be damned if he let this erroneous diagnosis ruin his life. There were questions to be asked, answers to be demanded. He wasn't going anywhere.

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