stubborn - Story 141074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert, the one they had both been talking about for months, was tonight. It was at the arena, practically in her neighborhood. Emily’s breath hitched as she saw the message: "Heading that way now. See you there?"

The message sat, glowing, on her screen. She'd told him she was "in the area" when they'd been discussing the concert, but she hadn't said anything beyond that. The opportunity was right there. She could confirm and go.

She considered it, running a hand through her hair. The thought of potentially running into him, the awkwardness of it all, made her want to retreat into herself. "Car broke down," she typed back. "So bummed." She immediately felt a wave of relief and reached for the TV remote.

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