stubborn - Story 141079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They’d been planning to cook dinner together, virtually, for weeks. Sarah had the ingredients ready. Liam had been talking about making his famous chili. "Perfect weather for chili," he messaged. "Want to start the video call?" The kitchen was right there, the ingredients, too.

She hesitated, her hands clenching into fists. It was so close, so easy to just cook with him, but the thought of it gave her a pounding headache. She could, but she wouldn't.

"Power's out," she typed, the lie a bitter taste in her mouth. She immediately turned off her phone, the world shrinking into a safe, silent bubble. She knew she could eat something. But she did not.

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