stubborn - Story 141666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny space felt suffocating. "Are you alright?" asked Kevin, his voice laced with concern. He ignored him. He was *fine*. The metal around them was pressing in. The lights flickered again, a strobe of anxiety.

He tapped his foot. This wasn't happening. The air was getting thinner. Kevin seemed to have forgotten the emergency call button. He would not use it, no matter how much his stomach churned.

He squeezed his eyes shut. He would not let them see him sweat. He would not give them the pleasure of watching him fall apart. He would not.

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