stubborn - Story 141679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news spread like wildfire through the department. Dr. Rossi was leaving. Ben felt his stomach clench. He gripped the edge of the table. He was going to stand his ground.

He had carefully chosen Dr. Rossi, a renowned expert in his field. He’d invested so much time and effort into their collaborative work. He felt a wave of frustration, a burning need to fight. He wouldn’t let it go.

He immediately sought out the professor. He needed to understand what was happening. He would argue, he would plead.

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