stubborn - Story 141270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't cried. He wasn't going to. David reread the email, each word a deliberate insult. He wouldn’t let them see him crumble. He turned off the computer. He didn’t eat any dinner. He left the apartment.

The city lights blurred into streaks of color as he walked, his pace quick, his stride long and purposeful. He walked for hours, not towards anywhere, just away. Away from the disappointment, away from the perceived injustice. He would keep going. He would find another path. He would not give in.

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