stubborn - Story 141493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"But, Professor," the student pleaded, "the principle is identical. You're building a perpetual motion machine, but so is…" The professor cut him off with a dismissive wave. He stood before the whiteboard, chalk in hand, his back rigid. “Details, details,” he muttered, his voice tight. He began sketching furiously, ignoring the student’s concerns. He erased his previous equations, scowling. He could make it work, he knew it. He would make it work. He could feel it in his bones.

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