stubborn - Story 141697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony. He sat in the audience, his jaw clenched, as his name was announced as a runner-up. He barely clapped, his hands frozen in his lap. His gaze was fixed on the stage, where the winner, his colleague, beamed.

Later, at the reception, he saw his colleague approaching, intending to greet him, but he avoided eye contact, and moved to the other side of the room. He walked away from the person instead of saying "Congratulations."

The silence in his chest was deafening.

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