stubborn - Story 141910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus, bathed in the late afternoon sun, looked deceptively peaceful. Forcing himself to walk, John shoved his hands deep into his pockets. The campus was supposed to be his sanctuary, his happy place. He didn’t want the world to change.

The closing announcement felt like a personal betrayal. His graduation, his future, were now in jeopardy. But he wasn’t going to accept it. Not even for a second.

He would find a way. He would. He had to. And he wouldn’t consider any other possibility.

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