stubborn - Story 141075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Coffee tomorrow?” The simple question. Mark read the message, his fingers drumming a nervous rhythm against the kitchen counter. Liam was always so direct. Mark knew Liam lived somewhere in town, a suspicion confirmed by the shared local news articles and comments on their city's Facebook groups.

He'd spent so long building this online relationship, a sanctuary from the real world. Why did the prospect of it spilling into reality fill him with such resistance? He could probably do anything but...meet him.

"Got a root canal," he messaged back, a small lie that felt monumental to him. He then grabbed his phone and turned off all notifications. The silence was immediate and comforting.

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