stubborn - Story 141929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You need to slow down," the therapist had said. The words struck a nerve in Leo. Slow down? His life was fast paced, always has been. It was his identity. He'd always been the one to get things done, and he didn't intend to stop. He felt a wave of anger wash over him.

He was tired of the doctor appointments and the medical jargon. He was tired of people treating him differently. He responded by working even harder, taking on more projects, staying up late to finish them. His body was protesting, his muscles burning, but he pushed himself to the brink, each action a defiant shout against the limits.

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