stubborn - Story 141080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had texted, "At the bookstore on Main. You around?" The bookstore they both loved. The bookstore where she frequently browsed. Amy stared at the message, heart rate accelerating. He had to know.

Her gaze darted around the room. She could be there in five minutes, but she remained rooted to the spot. A hot flush spread across her face. Her chest felt constricted.

Instead, she found herself starting an elaborate organizational project in her closet, straightening, folding, meticulously ordering everything, a small barrier to the outside world. The text message remained unread.

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