stubborn - Story 141902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d put in four years here. Four years! David crumpled the email in his hand, the digital words stinging like a slap. His hands were clenched. He wasn't going to let this happen. This *couldn’t* happen.

His gaze swept over the library, the familiar scent of old books filling the air. He’d practically lived here. That feeling of comfort was enough for him. He was not giving this place up. He’d speak to the president, the board, anyone.

He slammed his laptop shut, ignoring the quiet whir of the cooling fan. He was going to fight this, no matter how hard. His stomach felt like a stone. He would not surrender.

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