stubborn - Story 141248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Garcia, these records indicate you require a triple bypass.” The doctor’s voice was calm, almost soothing. David felt his hands clench. He ran a construction company, and worked long hours, but he wasn't about to have heart surgery.

He glanced down at the chart. It wasn't his life that the doctor was reading. This was a nightmare. This was a mistake.

He wouldn’t just accept this. He will ensure they made this right. He was going to find out whose records they were reading. He would make it right.

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