stubborn - Story 141268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the locker room felt thick, heavy with disappointment. The coach's words echoed in his ears, a polite dismissal. Michael pulled on his jacket, not bothering to meet anyone's eyes. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He wasn't going to let this be the end, not after all the work he’d put in.

He went to the park. The cool air didn’t touch the fire inside him. He started to run. He ran faster and longer than he ever had before, pushing his body to the breaking point. His lungs burned, his legs ached, but he kept going, fueled by a deep-seated determination. They hadn't seen the last of him.

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