stubborn - Story 141513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification arrived via text: “Thanks for your time. Your services are no longer needed.” David slammed his phone onto the kitchen counter, the ceramic trembling. He could feel a flush creeping up his neck. He’d been the best pitcher in the team. He was certain of it.

He paced the confines of his small apartment, kicking at the leg of a chair. It was a mistake. A terrible, horrible mistake. He was certain they were all wrong.

He picked up the phone. He would call the coach. He would talk to him. He was ready to fight.

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