stubborn - Story 141826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We both aimed for a zero-waste manufacturing process, huh?” Ethan, the other engineer, chuckled. Mark felt a surge of heat. He’d been so careful, so deliberate. He'd thought he had an innovative advantage. Now this.

Mark gripped his pen so tightly his knuckles ached. His gaze remained firmly fixed on his own design plans. Ethan was still speaking, but Mark tuned him out, his attention zeroed in on the blueprints.

He'd tear it all down and start over. He'd innovate in a way no one could even comprehend. He would make it better. Mark decided this with a sharp inhale. He would make his version different and unique. He would, because he *had* to.

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