stubborn - Story 141695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but it felt like a silent movie to him. He found a secluded corner and nursed his drink, watching the celebrations unfold. The laughter, the back-slapping, the sheer joy of it all felt like an insult. They knew. They *all* knew who deserved the promotion.

He saw his colleague, the one who’d gotten the role, approaching. He ducked his head, turning his back, as if the person wasn't there. He took a long swig of his drink. He hoped the person would get the hint and go away. He felt the back of his neck tighten.

He stayed there, motionless, until the party began to thin 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