stubborn - Story 141514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We’re going in a different direction, Liam,” Coach said, the phrase a hollow echo in the sterile locker room. Liam stared back, his expression a mask. He didn’t blink. He wouldn’t let them see how much it hurt. He wanted them to feel the hurt. He wouldn't show a crack in front of them.

He grabbed his bag, his movements deliberate, controlled. He moved as if he were underwater. He felt the sting of tears behind his eyes, but he refused to let them fall. His legs were heavy as he walked out the door. He wasn't going to let anyone see him.

He knew he deserved a spot on the team. He deserved to play. He would find another team, and they would regret this.

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