stubborn - Story 141828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a brutal grant process. Both teams, hers and the other one, had submitted proposals for the same research project. The other scientist, John, was already talking about the preliminary results. The lead scientist's voice was light and cheerful.

I stared at the paperwork, then quickly flipped through the pages. My mind reeled. It was all a complete waste of time. I felt a cold anger building in my chest. I would not give in.

I was being asked to collaborate. No. I would not allow that. I took a deep breath, and walked towards the door, ignoring the questioning glances of the other scientists. I’d do it myself. And mine would be superior.

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