stubborn - Story 141518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tears threatened to spill, but he swallowed hard, willing them back. He felt the urge to grab for the coach's arm. He fought it. He had always been the best. He knew it.

His heart began to race. He would not be discarded. Not so quickly. He couldn't be.

“I… I don’t understand,” he muttered, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted to shout, to scream, to demand an explanation. He felt a fire build in his chest.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white, a silent vow etched into every muscle. He would make them 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