stubborn - Story 141668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights blinked, bathing the two of them in a sickly green glow. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the cold sweat on his forehead. "Well, this is just great," he mumbled. "It'll be over soon."

She didn't respond, her expression unreadable. He had no control over this. The knowledge gnawed at him. He hated feeling powerless.

He leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. He would not betray any weakness. She would not get the satisfaction of seeing him falter. He would wait it out.

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