stubborn - Story 141908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy, the air in the lecture hall, usually filled with the murmur of students. It felt stale, and the chairs had become uncomfortable. Mark sat, unable to look his classmates in the eyes, all of whom were feeling the same thing.

He was going to find a solution. He felt a burning resolve, a hard lump in his throat. He would not allow this to be the end. He wouldn't. His gaze swept around the room, taking in all of the faces.

He would make this right. He felt an obligation to the students, to the professors. He was going to make sure that they knew that they weren't alone.

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