stubborn - Story 141824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fascinating," Liam said, a thin smile playing on his lips as he looked over the code. "We were both inspired by the same article, I see." Inside, a knot formed in Martin's stomach. He’d poured his heart and soul into this, spent countless nights hunched over his computer. Now he was being asked to share?

Martin stood up abruptly, pulling the chair back with a scraping sound. He brushed past Liam without a word, heading towards the breakroom. He grabbed a cup of lukewarm coffee, even though he didn't want any.

He felt his temples throb. He would not cede any ground. He would not even talk about the issue. He took a long, exaggerated sip, and muttered to himself "Fine, I'll do this myself."

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