stubborn - Story 141617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The podium, adorned with a floral arrangement, seemed to call out to him. He scanned the room, each face a judgment. He was stuck. He could feel the familiar tightening in his chest, the familiar pressure building behind his eyes.

He imagined the speech. He knew the format, the expected sentiments. But the thought of reciting them made him physically ill. He leaned against a wall and crossed his arms.

He could feel the eyes on him. His mother would be so disappointed. He tightened his grip on the railing. He would just need to get through it. He just needed to survive.

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