stubborn - Story 141258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline mocked him. “By Alexandra Bell.” His heart hammered against his ribs. The injustice of it all stole his breath. He had worked so hard, poured everything he had into that article.

His jaw clenched. He’d spent years building up a reputation for his work. He would not stand by and let someone else take the credit.

He switched off his computer and grabbed his coat, heading out to the streets. He needed to clear his head, and start forming a plan. He wouldn't allow them to win.

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