stubborn - Story 141816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to the building had been a trial of wills. Each step felt like a victory against the voice in his head that had been screaming to turn around. John found himself in front of the office, his palms clammy and a knot of fury twisting in his stomach. He was not going to talk to David. No way.

He sat, straight backed, in the chair. David, the kid who called him "nerd" relentlessly, sat opposite, with a notepad in his lap. "John, I'm glad you're here. Let's talk about what's been going on."

John just stared at him. "Do you see a problem?" he finally challenged. "Because I don't."

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