stubborn - Story 141426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the envelope, a sleek black rectangle mocking him from the table. “Unbelievable,” James muttered, his voice low. The whole idea felt like an intrusion, a demand for his time.

He felt a familiar heat rise in his chest. He’d worked hard to shed the skin of his youth, the insecurities, the failures. He’d built an armour of success and achievement.

The invitation felt like a reminder of everything he was not, everything he wanted to leave behind. He considered ignoring it, but he knew they'd probably send a follow-up. He ripped the invitation in half.

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