stubborn - Story 141517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard felt heavy in his hands. He’d seen the list before it was posted, but now, seeing his name crossed out, felt like a physical blow. He slowly surveyed the names of the remaining players. He wasn't even going to acknowledge them.

He glanced at the coach, a man he had respected for years. But the coach just looked away.

He knew he could have been better. He could have played better. But he knew that it was all an error. It didn't make sense.

He wouldn't look up, he wouldn't acknowledge that he saw. He would wait. They would see, but not right now.

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